Tiftof Posted April 26, 2005 Share Posted April 26, 2005 hi, Today I just installed ubuntu. First I made some free space on my hd (on my laptop) and I installed ubuntu on that space. Everything is fine, ubuntu and windows xp are working fine. But I just booted up norton partition magic 8 and now it doesn't show the partitions on my hd, it just says 'BAD'. With everything working fine and as I don't want to change something to my hd, it doesn't cause any problems. But I'm concerned though why it is saying that my disk is bad... And how will I be able to repartition in the future, or delete ubuntu? thx Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/313177-bad-disk-after-installing-ubuntu/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted April 26, 2005 Veteran Share Posted April 26, 2005 I'm not sure what that image is telling me, exactly... Can you still boot into Linux? If so, open a command prompt and do a fdisk -l (that is a lower case "L") to list your partitions, as Linux sees them right off the partition table. Graphics are pretty, but a picture here is really not worth a thousand words. You will need to be root (or sudo the command). Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/313177-bad-disk-after-installing-ubuntu/#findComment-585831392 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiftof Posted April 26, 2005 Author Share Posted April 26, 2005 yeah I know that the picture isn't helping much. I just added it to show where it says in pm8 that my hd is bad. I can boot into linux still, that's no problem, but not for the moment as I'm downloading something. But if the fdisk command shows me the partitions, will I be able to alter them in linux then? And what if I want to delete the linux partitions (not planning to, but what if...) will I be able to do that from within linux too? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/313177-bad-disk-after-installing-ubuntu/#findComment-585831415 Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted April 26, 2005 Veteran Share Posted April 26, 2005 You can alter anything you need to. The question is: is the partition table really messed up? As far as removing partitions, and manipulating them, that can be done using qtparted inside Linux. It is a GUI partition tool, sort of like Partition Magic. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/313177-bad-disk-after-installing-ubuntu/#findComment-585831638 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiftof Posted April 26, 2005 Author Share Posted April 26, 2005 After messing around a bit more. I used another partition program in windows that repaired the partition table and is now able to see the situation as it is. Partition magic is still giving my hd as bad. But could anyone tell me if the configuration I have now is healthy or not? I added a pic to this post with the situation seen from within windows and at the end of the post there is the list of partitions seen by linux. If I want to give linux more space. Can I just resize the windows and the linux partition? Or will I have to reinstall linux? And I read that is good to have a seperate partition for /home in linux so when you reinstall, you don't lose anything. Can I still create such a partition and put the files that I have now in my /home to that new partition. And last question: does linux needs defragmenting? If yes, how? thx Apparaat Boot Start Einde Blokken Id Systeem /dev/hda1 * 1 3952 31744408+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda2 3953 6394 19615365 83 Linux /dev/hda3 6395 6630 1895670 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda4 6631 7295 5341612+ 1c Verborgen W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hda5 6503 6630 1028128+ b W95 FAT32 /dev/hda6 6395 6503 867478+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/313177-bad-disk-after-installing-ubuntu/#findComment-585831870 Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted April 26, 2005 Veteran Share Posted April 26, 2005 I don't deal much with Windows stuff, but it seems that there is a bit of overlap in your Windows parititons. I don't know if this is normal, but it doesn't seem right to me. hda1: 1-3952 hda2: 3953-6394 hda6: 6395-6503 hda5: 6503-6630 (Slight collision here) hda4: 6631-7295 hda3: 6395-6630 (appears to be a "container" for hda6 & hda5) So, knowing that hda1-hda4 are always Primary parititons, it seems to make sense that hda3 is being used to hold two Extended partitions (if I understand partitioning correctly). But that once block overlap could cause problems between hda5 & 6 (unless that is normal...) As for giving more space (resizing partitions), it should be possible with tools such as Partition Magic, or qtparted. There is always some risk, especially if your partition table is not accurate. Separating your /home should not be a problem. I have never performed this action, but it should just be a matter of copying your current /home and changing the mount points in /etc/fstab. Finally, no, you don't need to defrag ext3 filesystems. I am not even sure if such a tool exists. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/313177-bad-disk-after-installing-ubuntu/#findComment-585832070 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hankyone Posted April 26, 2005 Share Posted April 26, 2005 also got that when i was running ubuntu, i think its because partition magic 8 doesnt support ext3 Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/313177-bad-disk-after-installing-ubuntu/#findComment-585832324 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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