From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NjDX2-0001kZ-R5 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:15:41 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 68B6DE09AF for ; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:15:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f216.google.com (mail-ew0-f216.google.com [209.85.219.216]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A36BAE074E for ; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:47:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy8 with SMTP id 8so438684ewy.29 for ; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 06:47:46 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=bwSNAKMVDNn3tCKA4z0t/CFKBfbDzSOBveqCiY5AsXE=; b=SWLNyGwayAgl2VZaOQ+I+uHRku7PO6AScLM4/M1cvnK3ooX/XTFXEz/9jmE4QRvK8B +kVOwe8KuVy/uPBxbeI2C95EegDenR7Y2gzgv8jsOUAzzwvu8Fyj7IvX1P1Na2807z9e F5SnCvlN98wFadfpQVy629QxuZXtEjk4hsTXc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=G/k7YoUQxiKTHqsjTcCh4+N08rsDGxXQAoQpMkuIf7i+avznCdRXbLp9HYNENZfpfZ my8gVFvoauub3xfImeyK32au113dOq8X1z8k30zHrSdlu/tET/nG2ZvdVsnGrmG9XawU Xf1v5yUwFS/YhkXM6sKEiMp3GBIIQbYSz2z+c= Received: by 10.213.103.133 with SMTP id k5mr241794ebo.76.1266763666042; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 06:47:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from lappy.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 15sm1523514ewy.8.2010.02.21.06.47.45 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 21 Feb 2010 06:47:45 -0800 (PST) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Resizing ntfs creates a hidden partition Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:47:41 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.3 (Linux/2.6.31-gentoo-r6; KDE/4.3.3; i686; ; ) References: <358eca8f1002200323r6ee3f399s9fc239b654aa205d@mail.gmail.com> <20100220135938.GA2422@nebukadnezar.matrix.de> In-Reply-To: <20100220135938.GA2422@nebukadnezar.matrix.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201002211447.43168.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 8d65b563-e1d5-4ef7-ad67-621cf99fe859 X-Archives-Hash: 99445b1cd74ede048865695b3641fa86 On Saturday 20 February 2010 13:59:38 Stefan Schulte wrote: > Hi Mick, > > AFAIK the asterisk behind the partition just indicates, that it is not > aligned to a cylinder boundary. I think this doesnt have any effect (or > maybe some old OS like DOS depend on it). If you use cfdisk for > partitioning you can avoid that by given the space in c(ylinders). e.g. > New Partition with a size of '100c'. > > I guess your hidden partition has something to do with Windows > behaviour, because if you install Windows and create partitions during > the installation process, it also creates an extra 8MB partition. > Maybe gparted adopted that behaviour. > > But I can't tell you the reason why. Some people say it's for temp data > (which I doubt) and others say it's used to store metadatas if the user > decides to use flexible disks or software RAIDs. > > I just can say that windows is running fine without it on my computer, > because i decided to partition with cfdisk before running the > installation. Thank you both for your responses. I failed to notice that gparted now has a handy 'align on cylinder' tick box. That's what I think shifts partitions along until there is alignment with the cylinder boundary. -- Regards, Mick