[olug] fdisk problem

Jon thechunk at home.com
Mon Sep 10 18:03:53 UTC 2001


slackware install disk has cfdisk on it.  It also boots you to  a root prompt.
Very good for managing drives.

-Jon W

On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 12:29:23PM -0700, Mike Peterson wrote:
> Is there a public domain or open source program anyone has run that will delete the extended partition from a Linux install?
> 
> Windows 98 second edition fdisk will not do it because it does not see any logical partitions to delete and will not allow the extended area to be deleted.
> 
> I was testing an IDE hard drive with Linux and DOS with a mirroring controller and ran into this problem.
> 

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