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  • Subject: Re: [BL] parted, was Re: HELP!!! busybox fdisk and linux extended
  • Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 12:56:34 +0000 (UTC)

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

Message from Steven
===================
Sindi wrote:

BL3.4 has busybox fdisk. If it is going to mess
things up we should be warned against using it
for extended linux partitions.

First of all, you did not use the BL3 fdisk.
You used the one from busybox 1.3.2.

Second, I have consistently advised people
to make primary partitions, not extended.

Why is that? I was able to make DOS extended partition (I forget how - with BL3 fdisk?) and linux logical partitions (in the DOS extended partition, or with cfdisk 1999 version from BL2). The only real problem was the lack of hdb5 and hdb6 devices. BL3.50 was working find in hdb5 inside the DOS extended partition. But DOS drive letters were changed.

How do you suggest using a 20GB drive? I don't want any really large partitions because they take longer to boot. 3GB is overkill even for BL2 (which is up to 1.2GB now including two versions of kernel source code, uclibc, a lot of photos, timidity, over 100MB of stored packages, 220MB of source code - half of the total). I used the 20GB drive because we were given several of them and they are faster than a 3GB drive, newer, and less likely to fail since less worn out. I was hoping to have separate partitions for BL2, two versions of BL3, and the above-listed large directories, and at least one other partition to experiment in.

cfdisk at least did not try to make them.

Really? I'm pretty sure cfdisk is capable of making
extended partitions. Perhaps it was user error?

It did not offer that choice. It did make two logical partitions, which yesterday would not let me format them. Today I booted to DOS, both PQMagic and Ranesh partition manager said these partitions were already linux ext2, and mke2fs worked today. Maybe I needed to reboot linux to make it work? Maybe trying to format before the devices were made caused problems that reboting fixed? Anyway, I now have two linux logical partitions, and according to everything but cfdisk, also hdb4 linux extended partition.

I have not tried bl3.50 fdisk because I had no partition to put it back onto (I saved it as a tgz).

>
Busybox fdisk -v does not give the busybox fdisk
version, just busybox version 1.3.2.

It does in BL3:
--------------------
/<#>busybox fdisk -v
fdisk v2.12
--------------------

The busybox 1.3.2 version says when I type
busybox fdisk -v
fdisk: illegal option -- v
Usage: fdisk [-luv[ .......
Change partition table
Options: .....
-v give fdisk version

As you said, later busybox is buggy.
Sindi

Cheers,
Steven

Sindi




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