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

[Andrew Clausen]

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