abhinandh said:
i have win xp and fc6 installed.if i create some empty space and a partition before c drive(where windows is installed) in partition magic,will that be /dev/hdc1 in linux??
That depends. Is the drive connected to your secondary IDE channel as master?
For IDE drives (/dev/hd*), the lettering goes like this:
primary IDE master: /dev/hda
primary IDE slave: /dev/hdb
secondary IDE master: /dev/hdc
secondary IDE slave: /dev/hdd
The lettering in Windows (C drive, D drive, etc...) should be ignored, as that's referring to the partition, whereas the hdX in Linux refers to Hard Drive X. So /dev/hdc != C drive.
The numbering in Linux is what is important. If you create a partition before your WinXP install, and it's the FIRST partition on the disk, then it'll be /dev/hdX1, where "X" is the drive's letter according to the above list.