Hey Friends i need a lil help (for knowing what's happening)
I partioned my hardisk into 8 partitions out of which only first (Fat32) is primary and Rest are logical.They in increasing order of start sectors are -
{fat32},{ext3,ext2,fat32,swap,ext2,ext2,fat32}
Now their sizes (In MB's) are -
{3676.71},{4301.83,4301.83,8603.65,271.44,945.91,937.69,17018.11}
Now the problem is that when i am running gnoppix 0.8 (based on debian (kernel 2.6.7)) the last 2 partitions are interchanged (hda11 becomes hda10 and vise-versa [acc to what qtparted says]). ie they come in order -
{fat32},{ext3,ext2,fat32,swap,ext2,fat32,ext2}
I suspect the problem would also be with most (or all) distributions.
I am including the partition table for my hardisk followed by the cfdisk's output.
Partition Table for /dev/hda
---Starting--- ----Ending---- Start Number of
# Flags Head Sect Cyl ID Head Sect Cyl Sector Sectors
-- ----- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----------- -----------
1 0x80 1 1 0 0x0B 254 63 446 63 7180992
2 0x00 0 1 447 0x0F 254 63 1023 7181055 71055495
3 0x00 0 0 0 0x00 0 0 0 0 0
4 0x00 0 0 0 0x00 0 0 0 0 0
5 0x00 1 1 447 0x83 254 63 969 63 8401932
6 0x00 1 1 970 0x83 254 63 1023 63 8401932
7 0x00 254 63 1023 0x0B 254 63 1023 63 16803927
8 0x00 254 63 1023 0x82 254 63 1023 63 530082
9 0x00 254 63 1023 0x83 254 63 1023 63 1847412
11 0x00 254 63 1023 0x83 254 63 1023 63 1831347
10 0x00 254 63 1023 0x0B 254 63 1023 63 33238422
cfdisk 2.12
Disk Drive: /dev/hda
Size: 40060403712 bytes, 40.0 GB
Heads: 255 Sectors per Track: 63 Cylinders: 4870
Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Label] Size (MB)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
hda1 Boot Primary W95 FAT32 3676.71
hda5 Logical Linux ext3 4301.83
hda6 Logical Linux ext2 4301.83
hda7 Logical W95 FAT32 8603.65
hda8 Logical Linux swap 271.44
hda9 Logical Linux ext2 945.91
hda11 Logical Linux ext2 937.69
hda10 Logical W95 FAT32 17018.11
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Thanks anyway for reading this.
Copying this in a texteditor and then reading might help.