Partitions, created by linux fdisk, seem to have errors (disabling parted/qtparted, etc.) The table looks like this (I do not know whether it made it this way--I only gave fdisk types and sizes, or other things caused the errors. There were originally two fat32s plus one linux and swap on this disk, made by PartionMagic--one fat32 was eliminated and the space taken for several ext3 partitions made using linux fdisk):
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb1 * 65520 77600 6088635 83 Linux /dev/hdb2 1 65519 33021544+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hdb3 77600 79640 1028160 82 Linux swap /dev/hdb5 1 38753 19531449 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hdb6 38753 46504 3906250+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb7 46504 52704 3125000+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb8 52704 56579 1953125+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb9 56580 60455 1953125+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb10 60455 65519 2552603 83 Linux
Partition table entries are not in disk order
Fdisk 'v' command complains about hdb5 and hdb6 overlap. Appears as if the same is true for hdb6 and hdb7. How do I SAFELY fixe this up?
Backup, repartition, remake filesystems and restore.
You could try shortening the partitions with parted after backing up. If that works then you might not need to restore.
> hdb2 is either not needed or needs to be shrunk to same size <snip>
On the contrary, it is needed and should be kept at its current size. You can only have 4 partitions in the main partition table on a PC and you need this "extended partition" to contain the second partition table and all the additional partitions.
Ben.
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