I run a dual boot WinXP/Red Hat 8 system on my laptop. Since my hard drive is inherently small(laptop) I am trying to creat a swap partition for keeping mutually used files such as music/video etc... I have created a 2.5GB Fat32 partition with Partition Magic Pro and have windows recognizing the... (2 Replies)
Dear All
I tried to follow the instruction in this link:
http://multiboot.solaris-x86.org/v/2.html
I created all these partitions as mentioned in the link above by using partition commander 9
Fist stage:
I installed XP in first partition (hda1)....success.
Second stage:
Install... (0 Replies)
in between work somehow i deleted the linux partition from windows. now i am booting up in the grub mode. and it doesnt even accept the cd drive also that too in a notebook. i went to bios and changed my order of booting to cd->rom and then hdd.. but it directly goes to the grub command line when i... (2 Replies)
Dear all
i hav dual operating system ie windows 2003 and Red Hat Advance Server3
trying to mount windows partition on linux operating system using the following method
1)mkdir /mnt/windows
2)mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows
mount: fs type ntf not supported by kernel
and my kernel... (2 Replies)
Hi everyone
i was able to mount windows partition in open suse 10.3 and was able to view all contents of windows but unable to create any content in that one.
Can it be done or not? (0 Replies)
Hi!
I have a really big problem right now. I (accidently) formatted a ext3 partition with "mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1". The problem is that I REALLY need some files from there. The partition had a size of about 4GB, after accidently formatting it, I accidently rewrote Grub on it :wall: I hope I didn't... (3 Replies)
Hello All,
I have a Red Hat Linux 5.9 Server installed with one hard disk & 2 Partitions created on it as follows,
/boot - Linux Partition & another is
LVM - One VG & under that 5-6 Logical volumes(var,opt,home etc).
Here my requirement is to take out 1GB of space from LVM ( Any logical... (5 Replies)
I have a 1TB HD, suspect it had bad sectors and blocks...
it was pre-installed with windows 8.0..
I was able to boot up ubuntu and looked at the partitions and run a badblocks comand to verify secotors, after getting a serious of Input and Output errors mounting the partition and doing any... (2 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT MINIX
fdisk
FDISK(8) System Manager's Manual FDISK(8)NAME
fdisk - partition a hard disk [IBM]
SYNOPSIS
fdisk [-hm] [-sn] [file]
OPTIONS -h Number of disk heads is m
-s Number of sectors per track is n
EXAMPLES
fdisk /dev/hd0 # Examine disk partitions
fdisk -h9 /dev/hd0 # Examine disk with 9 heads
DESCRIPTION
When fdisk starts up, it reads in the partition table and displays it. It then presents a menu to allow the user to modify partitions,
store the partition table on a file, or load it from a file. Partitions can be marked as MINIX, DOS or other, as well as active or not.
Using fdisk is self-explanatory. However, be aware that repartitioning a disk will cause information on it to be lost. Rebooting the sys-
tem immediately is mandatory after changing partition sizes and parameters. MINIX, XENIX, PC-IX, and MS-DOS all have different partition
numbering schemes. Thus when using multiple systems on the same disk, be careful.
Note that MINIX, unlike MS-DOS , cannot access the last sector in a partition with an odd number of sectors. The reason that odd partition
sizes do not cause a problem with MS-DOS is that MS-DOS allocates disk space in units of 512-byte sectors, whereas MINIX uses 1K blocks.
Fdisk has a variety of other features that can be seen by typing h.
Fdisk normally knows the geometry of the device by asking the driver. You can use the -h and -s options to override the numbers found.
SEE ALSO part(8).
FDISK(8)