What happened to the alleged 1 MB partition that WinNT/Disk Manager
reported? (i.e. it doesn’t show up under any QNX report)
This question is to Microsoft, IMO. Yes, sometimes, NT sees some unformated space on disk… about 1
meg. Someone, probably, formatted it to FAT Just remove this partition by Disk Administrator.
It’s very unreliable and useless partition - I don’t know where NT physicly store data of this
partition… I guess when you created partitions during NT installatio, fdisk made a gap between
logical disk because modern disk is very huge for old fdisk, later, disk administrator can see those
gaps as unformated space.
How can I confirm that both type 130 & 131 are Linux partitions?
I think I can help you out by confirming that I in fact see these same
partition types on a drive containing only Linux. I used partition magic to
create them for some testing I was doing. ‘df -Pk’ reported the same results
on system running QNX6.2.1 when that drive was connected.
How can I confirm that both type 130 & 131 are Linux partitions?
I think I can help you out by confirming that I in fact see these same
partition types on a drive containing only Linux. I used partition magic
to
create them for some testing I was doing. ‘df -Pk’ reported the same
results
on system running QNX6.2.1 when that drive was connected.
Hope that helps a bit.
-Andrew
“Bill Caroselli” <> qtps@earthlink.net> > wrote in message
news:b4qu18$49c$> 1@inn.qnx.com> …
I’m trying to recycle a Dell laptop computer. If used to have
Win NT Pro 2000
QNX4
Red Hat Linux
I need to keep the Win NT parition. I was willing to scrap the QNX4
& Linux paritions.
I have successfully installed QNX6 over the QNX4 paritions. I’d like
to reclaim the linux partition space without harming the WinNT
Partitions.
So, I snooped around with both QNX & WinNT and wrote down what I saw.
My 2 questions are at the end.
Here is a record of what I saw:
Dell Laptop
QNX/RTP fdisk reports:
name type start end cyninders size
DOS4 6 0 69 70 516 MB
QNZ 79 70 340 271 2000 MB
Extd’d 15 341 1057 717 5293 MB
Thank you. The second link proved to be very helpful.
130 = 0x82 = Linux Swap
131 = 0x83 = Linux Native Partition
Does QNX have a utility to delete these extended paritions and
reallocate them as QNX partitions?
AFAIK, QNX does not have utility to work with extended partitions. I believe fdisk is supposed to do
this job, but seems it doesn’t smart enough to work with extended partitions, in my QNX 6.1A at
least. You can use Partition Magic for Windows to play with partitions (backup your important data
before!) or some other tool to change partition type in extended partition record to 0x4F and after
that ‘dinit’ them If you just delete them (without resizing extended partition), be aware that
you will not be able to creat QNX logical drives in extended partition (maybe things are different
in QNX 6.2.1??).
Just remove this partition by Disk Administrator.