Civileme,
Here is the output of fdisk. Except for hda2 & hda5 starting at the same
place I don't see any overlapping going on here.
thanks,
Mark
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1650 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 216 1734988+ b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda2 217 1650 11518605 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 217 279 506016 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 280 310 248976 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda7 311 692 3068383+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda8 693 1650 7695103+ 83 Linux
Command (m for help): q
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, civileme wrote:
> Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 13:34:08 -0500
> From: civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] Overlapping partitions - help needed!
>
>
> On Tuesday 23 January 2001 15:30, you wrote:
> > Ron,
> >
> > Thank you for responding, but unfortunately what you've suggested is not an
> > option at this time. I need to get this fixed as it at this time. If you or
> > anyone else can suggest an effective way this can be accomplished I would
> > really appreciate it.
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > Mark
> >
> > On Tuesday 23 January 2001 07:54, you wrote:
> > > 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.
>
> Mark
>
> $ su -
> password:
> # fdisk /dev/hdx #where x is a or b or whatever your disk is
>
> p
> q
> Highlight the output
> Paste it to an email
> post it to the list
> .
> Civileme
>
