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#1 2010-11-20 14:43:53

whitetimer
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Registered: 2010-05-23
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[ SOLVED ] Strange empty partiton sfdisk -l

Ok i have just run the following command and got this out put

Disk /dev/sda: 30401 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

   Device Boot Start     End   #cyls    #blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *      0+   9725    9726-  78124063+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2       9726   13372    3647   29294527+  83  Linux
/dev/sda3      13373   30400   17028  136777410   83  Linux
/dev/sda4          0       -       0          0    0  Empty

I have no idea what the sda4 partition is .....

Is it safe to delete & what is the best way to delete this partition ?

Many Thanks

Last edited by whitetimer (2010-11-20 17:26:32)

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#2 2010-11-20 17:27:31

whitetimer
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Registered: 2010-05-23
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Re: [ SOLVED ] Strange empty partiton sfdisk -l

Should anyone else find this, then the following will explain ... That's just a quirk of the way sfdisk outputs. It's telling you there is no sda4, so there's nothing to delete. You are allowed four primary partitions with the mbr partition table, one of which can be an extended partition. It's simply that slot 4, as it were, is unused.

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