[H-GEN] confusion re device namings

[Clinton Roy]

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hello all

I've been mucking with the partitions on cloisters (again :)

It was a horrible mess before, now it's almost just decent :)

I know I'll get into trouble for this, but I've been getting rid of my 
(badly sized) partitions for /home /usr etc and just been shoving them 
all in the one partition, currently I've got:

hda1  Boot  Primary  Linux ext2   2944.66    
hda5        Logical  Linux ext2   1266.70
hda6        Logical  Linux swap  98.71

(neatened up output of cfdisk)

everything of mine is currently on hda5, and I want to move it to
hda1, repartition and then try out ext2resize.

risky, yes, but i have backups :)

now, the problem is, how do I make a file system on hda1?
When I boot up, some part of the kernel maps hda5 to hda1, why, i
don't know...

any advice?

running linux kernel 2.2.12 on potato debian 

seeyas
-- 
``it's the perfect hassle, for the perfumed kiss''
			- Smashing Pumpkins, Daphne Descends
Clinton Roy
http://student.uq.edu.au/~s344025/

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