Derek Broughton a écrit, lundi 11 février 2002, à 10:09 : > From: "Jacques L'helgoualc'h" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [...] > > Only *one* `container' is allowed with usual tools as c?fdisk. > > Oh - I had never seen such a restriction, but then I hadn't tried to do it > either. I'll bow to your expertise .
Ahem, my `expertise' is just experience in breaking things... [...] > Well, thanks for that. I didn't know that either. And in checking I see > that I do, indeed, have a type 05 partition. sfdisk --id /dev/hda 3 85 should do the trick, as your extended partition is hda3. > Annoying to hear though, since hda5 is the most important partition > on my system after the /boot partition. My hd[ab]5 are swap, but it is not sufficient, as the chain was broken by a one-month-try partition magic. I had to do some arithmetic for getting back hda[6->14]. I recommend now using sfdisk --dump as backup ,---- | -l [or --list]: list partitions of each device | -d [or --dump]: idem, but in a format suitable for later input `---- HTH -- Jacques L'helgoualc'h
