Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 9G disk, >4 partitions, and lose95 | Date | Tue, 20 Oct 1998 20:09:33 -0500 (CDT) | From | kwrohrer@ce ... |
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And lo, Guest section DW saith unto me: > > No, sfdisk is several years old. It is in util-linux. > I suppose RedHat decided that its user interface was too horrible > to let it loose on the general public, but there are several things > no other fdisk will do for you. Changing the type to and from 5 > is one of these.
It looks like my problems were threefold:
1) Red Hat 5.1's fdisk is old already.
2) When you fdisk the drive you've got root mounted off of (even read-only), linux-2.1.125 (and possibly earlier) won't reread the partition table, and with 2.1.125 it *seemed* like it wouldn't even *write* the table out to disk with root mounted read-only on it. It's a check in drivers/scsi/sd.c, and my bare minimum usage is 2 (ioctl + /), not 1 (ioctl). I'm not sure whether or not it's a good idea to change this...
3) Between those two problems, I never got around to realizing that the modern kernel does indeed recognize the new partition type numbers.
Keith (I hates rescue floppies...)
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