On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Troy Dawson wrote:

> (mistakenly I guess) told people that Partition Magic did ext3
> partitions.  I'll know better than to tell them that.

It appears that I'm out of date, using PM7.01.  Current version is 8.0
and I'm told it supports ext3.  However, the key problem was the
reported corruption of the partition table - PM7.01 has no objection
to the mere existence of ext3 partitions, as my observations showed.

> During a S.L. install, on the screen before the partitioning, you
> can do a <Ctrl><Alt>F2, which put's you into a shell.  You can then
> run fdisk from there.  Then when you get to the partitioning part,
> disk druid sees those partitions and will use them.

Good point - thanks.