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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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some partition? please post the output of mount -l to see if its mounted
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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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i would try mounting it first and seeing whats on it before you delete it maybe its a windows partition?
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what would be the best way to mount this to see what it is ?
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using the mount command mount <device> <mount point>
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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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I have just mounted the partition with
/dev/sda3 /mnt/temp defaults 0 0
the folder temp is empty ...
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So is it safe to delete this partition then ?
Last edited by whitetimer (2010-10-25 18:37:28)
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You should NOT delete it as it contains your sda5 partition
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Ryt ok .. Thanks ....
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