Re: Who's Right ... Parted or NT Disk Admin???

[Sean Cooper]

No, Parted is right!!! my comments are backwards. Good catch -- my fault (df -h
confirms it).

Andrew Clausen wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 03:46:42PM -0500, Sean Cooper wrote:
> > I have a machine that triple boots 98SE, Win NT server 4.0, and Redhat 6.2. 
> > I
> > want to decrease the size of
> > the windoze partitions and increase /home and also swap (I added more RAM).
> >
> > parted says (comments far right in []):
> >
> > 1        0.31  2047.346       primary         FAT             boot          
> >   [Win 98]
> > 2     2047.346  14668.725     extended
> > 6     2047.408        2070.878        logical         ext2                  
> >           [aka /boot or /dev/hda7]
> > 7     2070.910        6338.144        logical         ext2                  
> >           [aka /       or /dev/hda6]
> > 8     6338.175        6408.742        logical         linux-swap            
> >           [SWAP           or /dev/hda8]
> > 5     6408.773        8456.088        logical         ntfs                  
> >           [aka Win NT]
> 
> This looks dodgey... the minor number on the left should
> match the partition number.  i.e.  partition 6
> should be /dev/hda6, etc.
> 
> I just fixed a bug recently that caused this problem, that
> seems to only occur when you used RH 6.x's disk druid.
> 
> Try parted 1.4.23.
> 
> Thanks,
> Andrew