Comment 4 for bug 50066

The machine has 4 partitions, but Ubuntu is all in one for the Linux
stuff. i.e., all but the /media mount points were on one partition.
hda1 is C: and hda5 is D: in the MS terminology. I set these up
as FAT32 when I put on XP Pro soon after getting the machine in order
that Linux would be able to read and write them. I used to have 2 Linux
partitions (one primary, one logical), but after the crash of this bug
report, I combined them. One was Ubuntu Breezy, in process of upgrade at
crash, and one was Xandros 3.02, since sacrificed. Sorry that I don't
remember which was the logical one. I really should have recorded that,
and it may be buried somewhere in my log books.

Partition structure is a bit messy, having evolved over the 3.5 years.

                                  cfdisk 2.12r

                               Disk Drive: /dev/hda
                         Size: 40007761920 bytes, 40.0 GB
               Heads: 255 Sectors per Track: 63 Cylinders: 4864

     Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Label] Size (MB)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
hda1 Boot Primary W95 FAT32 (LBA) 14151.36*
                      Logical Free Space 0.04*
hda5 NC Logical W95 FAT32 19506.47*
hda3 Primary Linux ext3 [ubuntu] 5996.23
hda4 Primary Linux swap / Solaris 353.69

Some partition programs show hda2 as the extended partition. As far as I
recall, the .04 MB "free space" was not usable and may be overhead.

As you may have gathered, I was using this machine as a testbed for
ideas, and a "show and tell" box when I go to conferences, though it may
be a signpost that it hasn't been booted in XP for quite a while and
Ubuntu has been moved to top of Grub menu.

JN

Michael Vogt wrote:
> Thanks a lot for your detailed explaination!
>
> Just one question. Did you install all into a single parition? Or did
> you paritioned it in a way to have "/" seperate from e.g. "/var" (or
> some other setup)?
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
>
>
> P.S. I'm impressed how long you are already in the computers field :)
>

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