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#1 2010-10-25 17:19:49

whitetimer
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fdisk -l help ...

Hi All

When i run a sudo fdisk -l command, i get this


   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *          63   163846934    81923436    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2       163846935   202909434    19531250   83  Linux
/dev/sda3       202909694   488396799   142743553    5  Extended
/dev/sda5       202909696   488396799   142743552   83  Linux


What is this line ?

/dev/sda3       202909694   488396799   142743553    5  Extended

Many Thanks

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#2 2010-10-25 17:31:39

Halcyon22
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Re: fdisk -l help ...

some partition? please post the output of mount -l to see if its mounted

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#3 2010-10-25 17:36:07

whitetimer
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Re: fdisk -l help ...

Hi Halcyon22

This is the output


proc on /proc type proc (rw,relatime)
sys on /sys type sysfs (rw,relatime)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=10240k,nr_inodes=215165,mode=755)
/dev/sda2 on / type ext4 (rw,relatime,barrier=1,data=ordered)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
shm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
/dev/sda5 on /home type ext4 (rw)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
/dev/sda1 on /mnt/windows type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096)

I dont have a partition that i know of though ... Is it something i can delete as i have no idea what it is ...

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#4 2010-10-25 17:42:38

Halcyon22
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Re: fdisk -l help ...

i would try mounting it first and seeing whats on it before you delete it maybe its a windows partition?

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#5 2010-10-25 17:53:42

whitetimer
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Re: fdisk -l help ...

what would be the best way to mount this to see what it is ?

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#6 2010-10-25 18:04:55

Halcyon22
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Re: fdisk -l help ...

using the mount command mount <device> <mount point>

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#7 2010-10-25 18:30:29

skunktrader
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Re: fdisk -l help ...

Its an extended partition.  It does not (yet) have any logical partitions allocated
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_parti … _partition

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#8 2010-10-25 18:33:28

whitetimer
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Re: fdisk -l help ...

I have just mounted the partition with

/dev/sda3 /mnt/temp defaults 0 0

the folder temp is empty ...

@skunktrader

So is it safe to delete this partition then ?

Last edited by whitetimer (2010-10-25 18:37:28)

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#9 2010-10-25 18:40:21

skunktrader
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Re: fdisk -l help ...

You should NOT delete it as it contains your sda5 partition

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#10 2010-10-25 19:11:24

whitetimer
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Re: fdisk -l help ...

@skunktrader

Ryt ok .. Thanks ....

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