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From: aw@blarg.com (Ashley Winters)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: fdisk partition info
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Date: 26 Jul 1995 09:12:59 -0700
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Larry Snyder (larry@rn.com) wrote:
: I have a 1.2 gig IDE drive fdisked as:

:   slice 1  cylinder 1 to 700 as Linux
:   slice 2  cylinder 701 to 900 as DOS

: would it be possible to blow away slice 1
: with Linux and create a Linux partition of
: 350 cylinders from 1 to 350 as slice 1, then
: create a 3rd slice from 351 to 700 as freeBSD -
: and keep slice 2 as DOS from 701 to 900?

: or do the slices need to be in order that the
: partitions reside on the disk?

: larry

Your plan should be fine.