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- From: evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans)
- Subject: Re: Do I have to clear DOS partition?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.122451.7501@aston.ac.uk>
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- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 12:24:51 GMT
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- waardenb@cs.utwente.nl (Jerry van Waardenberg) writes:
- : Hi,
- :
- : I'm just new to this newsgroup and this is probably a FAQ, but anyway:
- :
- : I have a harddisk with C: and D: DOS partitions and I want to install Linux
- : on the D-partition. Can I install Linux *WITHOUT* removing the data from
- : DOS partition C:? (I know when I run the DOS fdisk program, all data on all
- : partitions will be lost. Is this also true for the Linux fdisk program?)
-
- What version of fdisk are you using, usually it will only touch the
- partition you have altered.
- Linux fdisk only does anything with the MBR, it does nothing with
- the data on the rest of the disk.
- If you alter a partition (especially if you reduce the size of it) you should
- reformat it.
- Thus if you don't touch the partition table entry for C: then you will
- not loose any data.
-
- How is your disk currently partitioned?
- At a guess
- /dev/hda1 MSDOS (c:)
- /dev/hda2 EXTENDED
- /dev/hda3 empty
- /dev/hda4
- /dev/hda5 MSDOS (d:) (logical partition)
-
- In this case you can leave /dev/hda1 alone, not touching your c: drive
- and do what you like to the other partitions
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