[luau] Linux + NTFS re-partitioning (was Linux)

[Casey Roberts]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: luau-admin at videl.ics.hawaii.edu
> [mailto:luau-admin at videl.ics.hawaii.edu]On Behalf Of
> Eric Hattemer
> Sent: Tuesday, 20 January, 2004 05:56
> To: luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu
> Subject: Re: [luau] Linux
> 
> I've always wanted to take a poll.  How many of you
> have used a
> partition resizing tool such as partition magic and
> seen massive
> filesystem corruption immediately or up to a month
> later?  That's why I
> shopped using or recommending those products, and
> was wondering if its
> at all common.  If you want to keep from flooding
> the list you can send
> "It worked great for me" responses directly to me,
> but mainly I'm just
> looking to see if there are any negative responses.
> 
> -Eric Hattemer

When I did an install of Mandrake on /hdb and used the
partition tool that was part of the install, I noticed
that some space was available on /hda, strangely in
the middle of my four Windows partitions.  I decided
that since it was a sizable chunk (about 1GB), I'd
turn it into /swap.  When I booted into WinXP Pro
after I installed Mandrake, it seems Windows
recognized two of my three secondary NTFS partitions
on /hda as Hidden NTFS partitions.  Since they are
"Hidden", Windows will not let me designate drive
letters to them.  Oops.  This is the first time I have
had this problem, and if I wipe those two partitions
out, no real loss.

Casey

P.S.  Define Irony...  One of the partitions that I
lost contained data that I put there because I thought
I might have to re-install Windows, and wanted to
ensure that I didn't lose the data.  Oh well.

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