Does anyone have much experience sharing a hard disk between Linux and Win95. I had tried to divide a drive I had into 3 parts, a DOS partition for Win95 to use, and a Linux swap and Linux native partition. I noticed that as I used the dos partition more and more while running Win95, whenever I booted Linux, I would find my file systems slightly trashed. Eventually, my /sbin and /etc directories were totally trashed and fsck bombed out... I had partitioned with Dos in the lower part, Linux native in the mid, and swap in the upper section.
Does Win95 treat linux like a virus? Are there any tricks or procedures that are necessary to prevent this mess, or do I have to keep stuff on seperate disks?
Christian Cabal wrote in message <361E3E81.D2D74...@rsn.hp.com>... >Does anyone have much experience sharing a hard disk between >Linux and Win95. >I had tried to divide a drive I had into 3 parts, a DOS >partition for >Win95 to use, and a Linux swap and Linux native partition. >I noticed >that as I used the dos partition more and more while running >Win95, >whenever I booted Linux, I would find my file systems >slightly trashed. >Eventually, my /sbin and /etc directories were totally >trashed and fsck >bombed out... >I had partitioned with Dos in the lower part, Linux native >in the mid, >and swap in the upper section.
>Does Win95 treat linux like a virus? Are there any tricks >or procedures >that are necessary to prevent this mess, or do I have to >keep stuff on seperate >disks?
On Fri, 9 Oct 1998 13:28:54 -0400, Richard Payne <paynerattimkendotcom> wrote: >Win95 doesn't even know that Linux exists on those partitions. >If it's not FAT, 95 ignores it. It sounds like you got some other >problem.
Something similar happened to me the other night when I added a fat partition, using the NT disk administrator, to my second hard disk which contained only SuSE linux and a linux swap partition.
On rebooting to linux I noticed that most of my KDE applications crashed on start up although everything had been fine before adding this partition. I suspected a corrupt file system and sure enough fsck went ballastic trying to clean things up. Just to make sure, I reinstalled all my packages from scratch and I'm glad to say everything is now working again.
I wonder if the problem stemmed from the fact that this FAT partition was past 1024 cylinders on the disk ... or was it deliberate sabotage of the KDE by MS :-)
> Does anyone have much experience sharing a hard disk between > Linux and Win95. > I had tried to divide a drive I had into 3 parts, a DOS > partition for > Win95 to use, and a Linux swap and Linux native partition. > I noticed > that as I used the dos partition more and more while running > Win95, > whenever I booted Linux, I would find my file systems > slightly trashed. > Eventually, my /sbin and /etc directories were totally > trashed and fsck > bombed out... > I had partitioned with Dos in the lower part, Linux native > in the mid, > and swap in the upper section.
> Does Win95 treat linux like a virus? Are there any tricks > or procedures > that are necessary to prevent this mess, or do I have to > keep stuff on seperate > disks?
> Thanks,
> Christian
I have a similar problem. I have a whole bunch of Linux partitions (/ /usr + 2 swaps), and 2 Fat-32 partitions. Stange enough, Win95 sees 3 partitions where it should only see 2. When using Windows, I sometimes get corrupted filesytem errors when running Linux afterwards. I never got to solve this problem.
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Bart Lamiroy <Bart.Lami...@imag.fr> writes: > I have a similar problem. I have a whole bunch of Linux partitions (/ > /usr + 2 swaps), and 2 Fat-32 partitions. Stange enough, Win95 sees 3 > partitions where it should only see 2. When using Windows, I sometimes > get corrupted filesytem errors when running Linux afterwards. I never > got to solve this problem.
I've seen this after creating two primary and an extended partition. Win95 seems to only like one primary FAT partition. Rather than investigating further, i ditched Win95 completely ;-)
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To avoid these problems, I always use MS fdisk and install DOS/Win FIRST.
Then I use Linux tools (current fav is Redhat's diskdruid) to do the rest. I have done 10 systems this way and have never had a problem. And no, I don't think only 10 systems makes me a linux guru :)
> > I have a similar problem. I have a whole bunch of Linux partitions (/ > > /usr + 2 swaps), and 2 Fat-32 partitions. Stange enough, Win95 sees 3 > > partitions where it should only see 2. When using Windows, I sometimes > > get corrupted filesytem errors when running Linux afterwards. I never > > got to solve this problem.
> > Does anyone have much experience sharing a hard disk between > > Linux and Win95. > > I had tried to divide a drive I had into 3 parts, a DOS > > partition for > > Win95 to use, and a Linux swap and Linux native partition. > > I noticed > > that as I used the dos partition more and more while running > > Win95, > > whenever I booted Linux, I would find my file systems > > slightly trashed. > > Eventually, my /sbin and /etc directories were totally > > trashed and fsck > > bombed out... > > I had partitioned with Dos in the lower part, Linux native > > in the mid, > > and swap in the upper section.
> > Does Win95 treat linux like a virus? Are there any tricks > > or procedures > > that are necessary to prevent this mess, or do I have to > > keep stuff on seperate > > disks?
> > Thanks,
> > Christian
> I have a similar problem. I have a whole bunch of Linux partitions (/ > /usr + 2 swaps), and 2 Fat-32 partitions. Stange enough, Win95 sees 3 > partitions where it should only see 2. When using Windows, I sometimes > get corrupted filesytem errors when running Linux afterwards. I never > got to solve this problem.
> Bart > -- > Bart.Lami...@imag.fr Equipe MOVI - Laboratoire GRAVIR > INRIA, 655 avenue de l'Europe > Tel : +33 4 76 61 52 34 38330 Montbonnot St. Martin - France
One of the things I have done since the beginning was unplug the Linux drive when installing a Windows OS. The first time I installed Windows95, the installation crashed trying to get its grubby little paws on the Linux partition. From that day on, I just unplug the Linux drive, do any installation or upgrade and then plug it back in. The MS OSes don't know about it and I am happy to say that the nuisance of unplugging it every time has paid off with never having had any problems at all. Divide and conquer!
Renzo
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