Re: [expert] Use of Windows may be hazardous to your Linux

[Wolfgang Bornath]

On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 14:53 -0400, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote:
> 
> It's also possible that the partitions overlap.
> 
> Mandrake 7.0 will make such things.  Run fdisk and see if that might
> happen. You wouldn't notice a problem until Windows tried to write to
> the end of the partition, such as when you ran a defrag program.
> 
> If this is it, you'll have to blame Mandrake rather than Microsoft, I'm
> afraid.

I heard about that one. So I checked the start/end numbers of
the partitions (using Linux fdisk). No overlapping. And BTW, it
was only a certain version of DiskDrake doing that. If you use
fdisk during installation you avoid that risk. 

wobo
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