The message 54874100511070258u5ab67f31oc05ef67f9f817b4@mail.gmail.com from Tim Green timothy.j.green@gmail.com contains these words:
On 11/7/05, Anthony Anson tony.anson@zetnet.co.uk wrote:
I've just cleared a 24 gig partition on hda (E:). Win 2000 Pro on C: - some progs and saved stuff on F:. For some reason, Windows allocated D: to the zip drive... I might re-allocate drive numbers sometime to coincide with the Linux list. How will Debian do it? I might also fit a SCSI CD ROM so I can copy CDs at least. I haven't got a SCSI CD/DVD drive. Q: when cfdisking it for Sarge, how will I know (for *CERTAIN*) which one to write to?
Linux doesn't know the drive letter assignments because Windows NT4 and beyond actually store this information in the registry.
Yes, I know this.
Sarge will write to the partitions assigned to it because you tell it which partition is boot, which is root, which is swap, and then optionally which will be home, var, etc.
What I need to know is how I can be certain that I'm writing to the partition I think I am. There are things I don't want to overwrite.