harddisk partitions

From: Svein Hamnes Aaberge (aaberge.hamnes_at_c2i.net)
Date: 10/30/03 

Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 11:08:10 GMT

I installed an extra harddisk of 120 GB. The partitions now look like
this:
   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 785 6305481 b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda2 786 4865 32772600 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 786 881 771088+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda6 882 4865 32001448+ 83 Linux
 
   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 1 1949 15655311 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hdb2 * 9211 14592 43230915 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdb3 1950 7856 47447977+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hdb4 7857 9209 10867972+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb5 9211 9306 771088+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hdb6 9307 14592 42459763+ 83 Linux

This mean that I should have Windows C on hda and Windows D and E on hdb.

When I do "df -h" I get:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdb6 41G 8,0G 33G 20% /
/dev/hda1 6,1G 5,1G 969M 85% /windows/C
/dev/hdb1 15G 867M 15G 6% /windows/D
/dev/hdb3 46G 4,7G 41G 11% /windows/E
/dev/hda6 31G 1,7G 29G 6% /data1
/dev/hdb4 11G 939M 8,8G 10% /data2
shmfs 189M 0 189M 0% /dev/shm

When I boot windows (win98) it tells me it is both windows C,D,E and F. It
tells that E is 485748244487 bites(45,2GB) and F is 4857482441
bites(45,2GB).
When I copy files to F they show up in E in SuSE and the amount of space
used on /dev/hdb3 increases.
When I copy files to E they don't show up on any place in SuSE and the
amount of space used on all /dev/hd* don't change.
In Windows it do tell me that I actualle use space of harddisk E When I
fill it up with files when I look on properties for harddisk E (and the
same for F).
So where do harddisk E write its files. The second harddisk is only 120GB,
but with windows partitions of around 15+45+45 and Linux-partitions of
around 40+10 you get far more.
Is it safe to use harddisk E in Windows or should I only use F (which SuSE
thinks is E)? Is there anyway to find out where on a harddisk a file
writes to? Is there anyway to correct this?

Thank you for your replies.

Svein

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