Problem: Windows can't see FAT32 partitions that I created
under Linux using parted. What step did I skip?
I have a new Western Digital 80GB IDE hard disk as /dev/hdc
on my dual-boot system and have created a bunch of FAT32
partitions using parted. Some of these will become ext2
later on, but I want to get any Windows setup out of the
way first so that the Windows tools won't screw up my
Linux partitions.
But Win98 only sees one big partition. Parted and fdisk
displays are at the end of this message.
Maybe I have missed a step in my setup. Maybe my BIOS
auto-detect needs to be overridden. It tells me I have
80 GB, 38309 Cylinders, 16 heads and 255 sectors.
I understand that Linux does not use the BIOS.
Do I need to set some parameters that will line up with
what Windows will see?
Windows has no problem with another hard disk on the same
box that has interleaved ext2 and FAT32 partitions,
including one FAT32 that is 11GB. That disk was totally
set up using this same version of Linux and parted.
I'm still on Red Hat 8.
Of course I could partition it with Win98's FDISK, but
that would be a cop-out. Anyway, I'm sure I'm just
overlooking some stupid detail.
TIA,
Vic
(Read on for gory details)
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When I go to Win98 and run Fdisk, I get this:
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Display Partition Information
Current fixed disk drive: 3
Partition Status Type Volume Label Mbytes System Usage
1 A Non-DOS 8025 74%
Total disk space is 10781 Mbytes (1 Mbyte = 1048576 bytes)
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Note that we are seeing some 100 GB here as "Total disk space", and
the full 80 GB as the size of the one partition.
Here's what "parted" looks like:
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GNU Parted 1.4.24
Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation,
- - -
Using /dev/hdc
Information: The operating system thinks the geometry on /dev/hdc
is 9729/255/63. Therefore, cylinder 1024 ends at 8032.499M.
(parted) p
Disk geometry for /dev/hdc: 0.000-76319.085 megabytes
Disk label type: msdos
Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags
1 0.031 4000.561 primary FAT lba
2 4000.562 8001.123 primary FAT lba
3 8001.123 76316.594 extended lba
5 8001.154 29996.367 logical FAT lba
6 29996.398 49999.174 logical FAT lba
7 49999.206 76316.594 logical FAT lba
(parted)
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uname -a:
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.4.18-14 #1 Wed Sep 4 12:13:11 EDT 2002
i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
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Here's what Linux fdisk says about this disk:
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Disk /dev/hdc: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdc1 1 510 4096543+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hdc2 511 1020 4096575 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hdc3 1021 9729 69955042+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdc5 1021 3824 22523098+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hdc6 3825 6374 20482843+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hdc7 6375 9729 26949006 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
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By comparison, Linux fdisk gives me this for /dev/hdb which is
40GB and is working just fine. Parted set this one up too:
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Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4998 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 307 2465946 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hdb2 308 316 72292+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hdb3 317 1500 9510480 83 Linux
/dev/hdb4 1501 4998 28097685 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdb5 1501 3414 15374173+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb6 3415 4870 11695288+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hdb7 4871 4998 1028128+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
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