Bug 112520
| Summary: | Fedora Core 1 uses type f for extended partitions | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Greg Morgan <drkludge> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Jeremy Katz <katzj> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 1 | ||
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2003-12-22 04:05:20 UTC | Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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This is correct (the difference is minor, but for larger drives, you really do want the LBA form to avoid problems with some OS's) Ok. Thanks for the information. So I want type f, Win 95 LBA to avoid problems with some OS's. If fedora is the only OS on the box, do I really care about the other OS's? Or type f is best for all installs should a person be dual booting with A win platform. I have seen the same problem with Redhat 7.2 & 7.3. It is causing my bare disk recovery program to fail. When I change the type to "5" then my bare disk recovery program works fine. (mondoarchive) |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 Description of problem: I have installed Red Hat 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 and 8.0. In all of these I was able to used fdisk while partitioning. In Fedora Core 1 I could not use this tool. So I used the gui tool in anaconda. In all of my other installs the extended partition was marked with type 5. In the fedora install it was marked as type f. Is this correct? Also note that I use multiple partitions or more than the default used by the automatic partitioning of server or workstation. For example my 8.0 samba/nfs server has this partition scheme on a 120 gig drive. Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 15017 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 24 192748+ 83 Linux /dev/hda2 25 15017 120431272+ 5 Extended /dev/hda5 25 285 2096451 82 Linux swap /dev/hda6 286 416 1052226 83 Linux /dev/hda7 417 678 2104483+ 83 Linux /dev/hda8 679 774 771088+ 83 Linux /dev/hda9 775 2496 13831933+ 83 Linux /dev/hda10 2497 3771 10241406 83 Linux /dev/hda11 3772 6320 20474811 83 Linux /dev/hda12 6321 7876 12498538+ 83 Linux /dev/hda13 7877 15017 57360051 83 Linux The fedora install had this scheme using the GUI tools Command (m for help): Disk /dev/hda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /boot /dev/hda1 * 1 20 160618+ 83 Linux /home /dev/hda2 21 6423 51432097+ 83 Linux /usr /dev/hda3 6424 7759 10731420 83 Linux /dev/hda4 7760 14593 54894105 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) swap /dev/hda5 7760 8020 2096451 82 Linux swap /tmp /dev/hda6 8021 8281 2096451 83 Linux / /dev/hda7 8282 8412 1052226 83 Linux /var /dev/hda8 8413 14593 49648851 83 Linux df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda7 1012M 149M 812M 16% / /dev/hda1 152M 6.2M 138M 5% /boot /dev/hda2 49G 34M 46G 1% /home none 505M 0 505M 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda6 2.0G 35M 1.9G 2% /tmp /dev/hda3 11G 5.0G 4.7G 52% /usr /dev/hda8 47G 173M 45G 1% /var I am uncomfortable with the "Win95 Ext'd (LBA)" partition being selected. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): fedora core 1 How reproducible: Always ( It happened the two times I installed core 1 on the drive) Steps to Reproduce: 1.Start install 2.Perform manual partitioning 3.Create a partion for /, /var, /home, /tmp, /boot, swap, and /usr Actual Results: Disk /dev/hda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /boot /dev/hda1 * 1 20 160618+ 83 Linux /home /dev/hda2 21 6423 51432097+ 83 Linux /usr /dev/hda3 6424 7759 10731420 83 Linux /dev/hda4 7760 14593 54894105 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) swap /dev/hda5 7760 8020 2096451 82 Linux swap /tmp /dev/hda6 8021 8281 2096451 83 Linux / /dev/hda7 8282 8412 1052226 83 Linux /var /dev/hda8 8413 14593 49648851 83 Linux Expected Results: Disk /dev/hda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /boot /dev/hda1 * 1 20 160618+ 83 Linux /home /dev/hda2 21 6423 51432097+ 83 Linux /usr /dev/hda3 6424 7759 10731420 83 Linux /dev/hda4 7760 14593 54894105 5 Extended all <--- use type 5 for extended. swap /dev/hda5 7760 8020 2096451 82 Linux swap /tmp /dev/hda6 8021 8281 2096451 83 Linux / /dev/hda7 8282 8412 1052226 83 Linux /var /dev/hda8 8413 14593 49648851 83 Linux Additional info: I am not sure if this is a bug or something I need to get used to.