General :: Windows - When Disk Partitioning In Ubuntu, Wrong Informations Were Detected?

Apr 5, 2011

when i check disk partition in ubuntu 9.04

using #fdisk -l.my friend show me like this.i have 4 hard disks, but he didn't.. but only 3.Was there anything wrong? when i installed linux and maked config?(e.g> i have miss on setting disk partition matter) and when see below result, the device sda2, sda5 start same address, end too.is there anything wrong with my disk? i have seperated 4disks.. C:,D:, G:,H:

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xe9ffe9ff[code].....

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Quote:

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sudo df -lha
S.ficheros            Tama�o Usado  Disp Uso% Montado en
/dev/sda5              15G   14G  660M  96% /
proc                     0     0     0   -  /proc
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