[LinuxUsers] backtrack dual boot

[David Kaiser]

After I sent that last one - I noticed that although the cylinder
boundaries are the same... the actual "Blocks" count is off by a
difference of 32.

I actually don't know if you could just redefine a primary where the
extended was - and just mount that original filesystem - something might
be off by 32 blocks.

I'll research this when I get back home.


David Kaiser wrote:

> /dev/sda1   *           1       37435   300696606   83  Linux
> /dev/sda2           37436       38913    11872035    5  Extended
> /dev/sda5           37436       38913    11872003+  82  Linux swap
> 
> On my drive, I have a single primary volume, and an extended swap
> partition.  Look at the starting & ending cylinders of both the extended
> (/dev/sda2) and the swap partition (/dev/sda5) - they are the same
> boundaries.
> 
> So - theoretically speaking - there is a filesystem that exists from
> cylinder 37436 to cylinder 38913.  If you were to delete the partition