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

[terry]

Fred James 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 advance for any help you can offer 

Not to worry ....
No.  You don't have a Win95 partition.  What you're seeing there is just 
the designation for the extended partition(s), (Ext'd (LBA), of which, 
there is only one, /dev/hda5, which starts at  cyl. 664   and ends at   
7943.
Look again.  :)

>
>
> 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  
> /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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