I'm "repairing" our minister's notebook which is basically a Windows disk
jammed to overflowing in C: and next to empy in D:, and unable to do any real
work (with sloshing in C:, compression and indexing turned on). Seeking
reliability and familiar with what I do, he's asked to "see this Linux thing"
(as well as getting the machine usable again in Windows XP) so I'm planning
to reconfigure his machine and give him a relatively small Linux bootable
partition, OpenOffice and Evolution, as well as returning the XP partition to
usability.
But something I see about the single physical disk drive has left me
confused: Booting a Knoppix CDROM and doing "cat /etc/fstab" I see a single
partition, hda1. Similarly, "cat /proc/partitions" shows hda and hda1 with
hda1 *almost* the same as hda. I think that says there is one partition on
the hard disk. Period.
But when running (badly) in Windows XP (Home Edition) as booted from that
disk, Windows Explorer sees both a C: and a D: drive -- I thought those were
separate partitions.
WTF?
--
Ed Skinner,
ed@flat5.net,
http://www.flat5.net/
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