[Wylug-discuss] Partitioning and LBA

[Dylan]

James Holden wrote:

>On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 15:11, Dylan wrote:
>
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>>I originally had FC2 installed on a single hard-drive with the following
>>partition table:
>>
>>/dev/hda1   /boot
>>/dev/hda2   /swap
>>/dev/hda3   /
>>/dev/hda4      W95 Ext'd (LBA)
>>/dev/hda5   /home
>>
>>I then installed FC3 on a new harddrive, whihc meant the old one was now
>>/dev/hdb. I mounted /dev/hdb5 as /home. I considered leaving the old
>>partition table in case of emergencies, but decided the space was
>>needed, so I removed /dev/hdb1-3, then fdisked a new /dev/hdb1, so my
>>partition table now reads:
>>
>>/dev/hdb1   /download
>>/dev/hdb4      W95 Ext'd (LBA)
>>/dev/hdb5   /home
>>
>>I'm just wondering is this is a safe situation (it seems to be working)
>>and if there is a way of modifying the partition table to convert hdb5
>>to hdb2 without data loss?
>>
>>
>
>Quite safe. Nothing unusual, as such.
>
>You can't really convert an extended partition to a primary partition
>without lots of fuss. For extended partitions, the details are stored
>outside of the MBR.
>
>James
>
>
>
Thanks. I thought it all looked kosher, but I was a little worried. I'm
quite content with everything working, it was just for the sake of
cleanliness. Feng shui, as it were.