[H-GEN] Linux and Partitions

Frank Brand fbrand at uq.net.au
Tue Sep 26 19:22:00 EDT 2000


Ben Fowler wrote:
> 
> [ Humbug *General* list - semi-serious discussions about Humbug and ]
> [ Unix-related topics.  Please observe the list's charter.          ]
> 
> On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Sandra Milne wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Stephen Thorne wrote:
> >
> > > *cough*debian*cough*
> 

My original question was not intended to start a flame war. I have used
pretty well all distros at some stage and, as far as I am concerned,
they are all much the same to the user.

My question was about partitioning. I am finding that one partition may
start before the previous partition finishes eg:-

Part 1 1-500 cyls
Part 2 499-600 cyls 

I know there was a question on here about a year ago and I think it was
either Ben Fowler or Byron Ellicot (IIRC) indicating that the same thing
had happened (again IIRC).

When this happens it is impossible to just delete partitions and the
only way to fix this AFAIK is to run disk-manager. Not everybody is
aware of this and not everybody has easy access to disk manager software
(On-Track say) which is almost universally DOS based.

In relation to Andrew Draper's response, I don't think all the later
distros give you the partitioning option I think Mandrake (DiskDrake)
and Red Hat 6.2 do not give you the option (I could be wrong here but
that is how I remember it). In earlier versions there was an fdisk
option which I preferred to take.


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Frank Brand

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