Mark Weaver wrote:
>
> So, I said all that to ask this. Is there a way that I can fix this
> problem without destroying the filesystem, and having to reload yet
> again?
Use Partition Magic (yes, it costs - and does not support Reiserfs)
to copy all the good partitions to another physical drive (yes, buy
it if necessary), then delete all the partitions on your first disk
and set it up LBA and copy back those partitions. PM comes with an
excellent DOS utility (PARTINFO.EXE) on the rescue floppies that
fully reports all errors and warnings on your partition tables. This
must run without producing any w or e messages before your drives can
be considered safe and time-bomb free.
A useful tip is to add a smallest size partition to the end of your
extended primary partition as a protective sentinel. A great deal of
software gets it wrong when it has to test for end of partition
during writing when there are three tests it must make - end of
partition, end of extended partition, and end of physical disk.
These three things are NOT the same on many disk setups --> chaos!
The never-accessed sentinel partition fixes this.
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Regards,
Ron. [AU]
