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Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 12:18:34 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: partition devices
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On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 05:35:20PM -0600, Robert Citek wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> On a dual boot Windows/Linux system, how can I determine which device
> corresponds to /dev/hda5?
> 
> >From the docs, each /dev/sdaX is supposed to map to a partition.  For example,
>   /dev/sda1 --> partition 1 on first disk (drive C:\)
> 
> When I use fdisk under linux, it tells me my disk has seven partitions: 1
> primary (hda1), 1 extended (hda4) and 5 logical (hda5-9).  hda1 is a FAT32
> partition.  hda5 is ext2, a 40 MB /boot partition.  hda9 is an NTFS
> partition.  However, when I boot into Windows, /dev/hda9 is not /dev/sda9.
> Instead, /dev/hda9 is now /dev/sda4.
> 
> So which /dev/sda? partition is /dev/hda5?

Why do you think there should be a 1:1 correspondence?  Each OS can do
this to it's own liking.  Just try.

Corinna

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