On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 10:32:10PM +0900, Dave Gutteridge enlightened us: > I've tried to create a Linux swap file, but when I run fdisk, it looks > like this: > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hdb1 * 1 3644 29270398+ 83 Linux > /dev/hdb2 3645 3737 747022+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) > /dev/hdb5 3645 3737 746991 82 Linux swap > > Why is this W95 partition existing in the same place as my Linux swap? I > would have thought they'd be incompatible. > Can my Linux OS use this Linux swap? > > Does this need cleaning up, and if so how? > It looks like it is some sort of extended partition. DOS disklabels can only have 4 partitions (primary), so to get around that you can create a primary partition as type extended, which can contain more partitions (up to 12, I think). On my system, the extended partition is type 5, on yours it's type f. I'm not sure it's hurting anything, but to be on the safe side, I'd probably delete partitions 5 and 2, and just create a primary partition of type 82 (Linux swap). In a related note, does your system have no other swap enabled at all? That could explain your yum-lockup problems. Yum is very memory intensive, if you starve it and it has no swap to go to, it probably will lock up. :-) Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20050908/094328ec/attachment-0004.sig>