[NTLUG:Discuss] Win95 Ext'd (LBA) on my Linux box - where'd that come from

[Fred James]

Short history:
box has 2 60GB drives in it
It was a RH 7.1, and the person who set it up had partitioned part of 
hda for /, part for /swap, and then "globed together" the rest of hda 
and all of hdb to make one big partition, using some form of RAID, and 
mounted it as /dev/md0

Well that broke, and since then it has become a RH 7.3 box with no 
"cross volume" partitions or RAID - but it looks like I might have a 
legacy problem:
"fdisk -l" returns a display (see below) that indicates the "extended" 
partition is Win95 LBA.  I just went through a 2 day fsck on the /home 
partition (hda5) and I think (can't prove it) that the original problem 
that broke the RAID could have been on hda as well.  By the way, the RH 
7.3 install was a total "clean install", so I would have assume no 
legacy problems, but I have never heard of a Win95 partition on a Linux 
box without it being purposely installed.  [By the way, "fdisk -l" on 
another of my RH 7.3 machines (also with extended partition) did not 
reveal any hints of the MS world]

So, can anyone shed some light on what is going on here, and if I am 
facing a "future of problems" with this Win95 Ext'd partition.
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer

Disk /dev/hda: 240 heads, 63 sectors, 7943 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *         1         4     30208+  83  Linux
/dev/hda2             5       559   4195800   83  Linux
/dev/hda3           560       663    786240   82  Linux swap
/dev/hda4           664      7943  55036800    f  Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5           664      7943  55036768+  83  Linux

Disk /dev/hdb: 240 heads, 63 sectors, 7750 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdb1   *         1      7750  58589968+  83  Linux


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