partitioning question

[Michael Hipp]

Ken Moffat wrote:

> I recently added an 80gig western digital oem to one machine as a slave, 
> and used BootIt-NG to partition it into 10 gig reiserfs partitions, with 
> hdb4 as extended and several logical partitions, hdb5-9. However, there 
> are .03meg spaces between each partition labeled /dev/hdb-1. Some are 
> labeled hidden, some not.
> 
> I'm wondering what the cause of this can be. I did not preformat the 
> drive or otherwise mess with it before using BootIt-NG, so it was just a 
> raw drive. I wonder if there was some step I should have taken before 
> creating my partitions?
> 
> I have used bootitng before with success, and this drive is functional, 
> but the formatting is curious.

Most all my drives end up this way. Dunno why.

I sometimes use DriveWorks to do my partitioning beforehand and 
sometimes use whatever partitioning tool is in the distro installer. 
Heck, I've even used the partitioning tool in the W2k/WXP setup.

The only effect I've ever seen from it (other than a small amount of 
wasted space) is that Anaconda/Fedora tends to complain about these 
"gaps" but there is no apparent harm.

Michael