Re: Mounting extended Linux partitions

[Dave Horsfall <dave_(_at_)_horsfall_(_dot_)_org>]

On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, tedu wrote:

> edit the disklabel.  use the -e option, as -E won't let you do everything
> you want.  You'll need to get the sector offsets and sizes of each of your
> linux partitions, from within linux using whatever tool does that.  write
> them down, and create partitions as appropriate with type ext2fs.

Yep, I finally figured it out (with a bit of help from Chris Kuethe).

If anyone is interested, the Penguin counts its cylinders from 1 (not 0)
in 1Kb blocks (not 512b), with a constant offset of 63 sectors (added
to where Penguin thinks it starts, at least on this drive).

> this is one of those activities where you will want to backup anything
> important before attempting it.

Oh yes...

Yet another successful Penguinectomy :-)

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