[Wolves] Hello - first post from me !

[Adam Sweet]

--- Tim Childe <tim.childe.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

> Apologies for the shrapnel postings ;-)
> 
> I've just discovered the linux fdisk - hey, I said I
> was a beginner!!
> 
> I have got this from it...
> 
> Disk /dev/hde: 40.9 GB, 40982151168 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4982 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> 
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hde1 * 1 1275 10241406 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
> /dev/hde2 1276 4982 29776477+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/hde5 1276 3825 20482843+ b W95 FAT32
> /dev/hde6 3826 4982 9293571 b W95 FAT32
> 
> I don't remember hde2 being there, in fact I'm sure
> it wasn't.
> 
> So, I think I have the culprit, now what do I do to
> get it back without 
> killing my partition off ???????

Ahh no. hde2 is an extended partition, it's
effectively a container for the other 2 partitions. On
each disk you can have 4 partitions. To get around
this restriction, you can have extended partitions
which allow you to have more partitions inside each
extended partition. Note that hde2 starts at the same
point as hde5 and ends a the end of hde6. The naming
of the logical partitions hde5 and so on implies that
there could in theory have been 2 other regular
partitions hde3 and hde4.

So thats not the problem I don't think. At least as
you said in another post you can still see your fat32
data.

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