At 08:19 AM 12/16/1998 -0500, Jeff Miller wrote: >Hello, > >My drive 0 (hda) has three partitions. The first two are FAT32 Windoze and >I have wiped, removed, and re-created the third with cfdisk. I selected >'Logical' as the type, through cfdisk, and it was assigned a Type of 83 >(Linux). I can mount it and everything seems to be ok. My problem is this: > I want to copy everything from my Linux drive (hdc) /usr directory to this >new partition but when I do 'cp -r * /newpartition' I get error messages >that report the drive type as UMSDOS. The files seem to copy, but it >doesn't appear that I have the correct format on that partition. Is any of >this making sense? My goal is to mount that partition as /usr to make use >of the extra space, but I don't think I'm doing something right. Do I have >to do something beside setup a partition with cfdisk? > >Thanks In Advance > >Jeff Miller
Let me preface this by saying I don't know what I'm talking about, but I think I choose "Primary" instead of "Logical" when partitioning a drive. I'm not real sure what each of these means, but I'm under the impression that Logical is somehow dependent on the primary partition.
