Re: [gentoo-user] fdisk errors after repartitioning

2005-07-15 Thread Robert G. Siebeck
Hi Benno, 2005/7/15, Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Robert, /dev/hda52212 7971739063024 83 Linux /dev/hda6 1312211 1048792+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris cfdisk doesn't even start but stops with the following message:

[gentoo-user] fdisk errors after repartitioning

2005-07-14 Thread Robert G. Siebeck
Hi, I recently repartitioned my harddisk. Before my HD had 4 partitions, all primary ones: boot, swap, Linux (Reiserfs) and Windows (FAT32). I shrinked the reiserfs-partition and then deleted it. I deleted swap, too. Then I created an extended partition. Within this extended partition I created a

Re: [gentoo-user] fdisk errors after repartitioning

2005-07-14 Thread Richard Fish
Robert G. Siebeck wrote: The only thing which seems strange is an error thrown by fdisk: # fdisk /dev/hda The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 116280. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that