[NTLUG:Discuss] Win95 Ext'd (LBA) on my Linux box - where'd that come from
Jay Urish
j at unixwolf.net
Thu Mar 13 12:44:38 CST 2003
At 12:32 PM 3/13/2003 -0600, you wrote:
>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 advan
If I were in your shoes, I would back up all important data and wipe the
drives and re-partition. All this software IDE raid stuff is horse pookey.
If you want a RAID, you get some scsi disks and a raid controller. I have
had to try and fix several of these rigged up raids and it is a nightmare
from hell.
Jay Urish W5GM Jack of all Trades. Ace of None.
The wandering UNIXWOLF
http://www.unixwolf.net AIM:jayurish
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