Comments on: Linux Partition Naming Convention ( IDE Drive Mappings )

By: Brian Esserlieu

Brian Esserlieu — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:14:52 +0000

Works on openSUSE 11, make sure to change the ownership of the new partition from root (sudo chown ).

By: VARMA

VARMA — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 09:51:20 +0000

Shortcut Key for RUN command = Alt+f2

By: sangeetha

sangeetha — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:42:55 +0000

hi,can any one suggeess me, how to run an application in linux

By: ghanshyam Gupta

ghanshyam Gupta — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 13:18:11 +0000

ide1 = primary slave = hab
should be ide1 = primary slave = hdb

By: ghanshyam Gupta

ghanshyam Gupta — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 13:16:12 +0000

For example:

ide0 = primary master = hda
ide1 = primary slave = hab
ide2 = secondary master = hdc
ide3 = secondary slave = hdd
Hi ,
ide1 = primary slave = hab should be
thanks
ghanshyam gupta

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 19:01:00 +0000

—————————————–
DISK ==> Your device
—————————————–
/dev/hda ==> Primary Master IDE
/dev/hdb ==> Primary Slave IDE
/dev/hdc ==> Secondary Master IDE
/dev/hdd ==> Secondary Slave IDE
/dev/sda ==> SCSI Disk 0
/dev/sdb ==> SCSI Disk 1
/dev/sdc ==> SCSI Disk 2
/dev/sdd ==> SCSI Disk 3
—————————————–

in order to address the actual data that is being held on your data, you need to address it by partitions.

For example if you had 2 parition on /dev/hda.

First parition => /dev/hda1
Second parition => /dev/hda2

Hope this helps someone :)

By: nixcraft

nixcraft — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 21:02:00 +0000

You can install mbr on /dev/hda (IDE0) and use grub to boot both oses or use Windows 2000/XP to boot Linux. Both operations require modification of MBR, hence backup is suggested. If you need specific procedure let me knowâ€¦ or just post your question to our forum.cyberciti.biz

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 11:16:00 +0000

Having looked at the answer to the question, I think that output “fdisk -l” suggests that windows OS is at ide0, and linux is ide1.

Some time ago I was trying to do the same configuration( windows OS-primary master, linux – primary slave). The installation was ok. During the boot up, I was getting error some think like ” MBR error “.
Then I had to create a boot disk in order to get my windows to work.
Is your boot loader on MBR or on hda1?

My ide0 has 4 partions-
partition 1(NTFS)- windows os
partition 2 & 3(NTFS)- windows data
partition 4 – Unallocated.

Any suggestion how could I get the same configuration to work?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 04 May 2006 16:53:00 +0000

It is true that PC/X86 impose a limit of 4 primary partitions per hard drive, but one of those partitions can be designated as an extended partition. Inside of this extended partition, logical partitions can be specified. So you can have partition number as follows:

a) 1-4 primary partitions
b) 5-16 logical partitions

For example /dev/hda5.