Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 Jan 1999 22:58:35 -0500 | From | Arvind Sankar <> | Subject | Re: (un)corrupted ext2 partitions |
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On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 02:13:36AM -0500, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 16:17:44 -0500 > From: Arvind Sankar <arvinds@MIT.EDU> > > Does the ext2 file system depend on /dev/hda5 staying /dev/hda5? > > No; but it does depend on the starting location of /dev/hda5 staying > constant if you play partition renaming games. This isn't always the > case with extended partitions, though, because of their really gross > nesty partition table structure, so you have to exercise a lot of care > when you move extended partitions around. I generally will try very > hard to avoid extended partitions whenever posible. > > - Ted
Interesting, that about extended partitions. Anyway, I need them, cos I got DOS, linux and netbsd on my disk, and I can't squeeze all of them into the four primary partitions. Are you saying that though fdisk says /dev/hda5 starts at the same cylinder as my original /dev/hda6 started, it might actually be different at the sector level? (my disk is LBA, of course)
-- arvind
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