A segfault occurs when a program attempts to access memory that the kernel
has not allocated to it. In practice, a segfault error message usually
means one of two things:
1. A bug in the application being run. A common one is trying to
read past the end of an array; C does not have a built-in check for this,
and programmers too often forget to do range checking.
2. A hardware problem, typically flaky RAM (which can trash an
address pointer).
Without more information about your setup, I can't really tell you more
about the error.
On the hardware side, how much RAM does the system have? Does the system
segfault on other occasions?
On the software side, what Linux distribution and version? What version of
fdisk (your -p printout is very different from mine, and I'm quite curious
as to why it says it has 8 partitions but only lists 5)? Why is your Linux
system using only BSD partitions ... or are they partitions from a prior OS
that you are trying to replace? And where are you running fdisk from (the
installer floppy or CD of your Linux distro, or what)?
Also, I may be reading it wrong (as I said, my fdisk has a different
format), but it appears that even if fdisk were working, you couldn't add a
new partition to that disk, since the 4 usable partitions (that is,
excluding the extended partition shown in your list as C: and, presumably
incorrectly, labeled "unused") already use all 2491 cylinders, leaving no
space for new partitions. Assuming the BSD partitions are from a prior
installation of an OS you are replacing, I'd suggest you first try deleting
one or more of them to provide some room for Linux partitions.
At 11:36 AM 7/17/02 +0800, azie wrote:
>I'm using Dell Dimension PIV 2.0 with 40GB harddisk. When I try to use fdisk
>to repartition my harddisk, I got this error.
>
>[begin]
>
># fdisk /dev/hda
>
>Command (m for help): p
>
>Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2491 cylinders
>Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
>
>8 partitions:
># start end size fstype [fsize bsize cpg]
> a: 1 7* 6* 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16
> b: 7* 40* 32* swap
> c: 1 2492* 2491* unused 0 0
> e: 40* 42* 2* 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16
> f: 42* 2492* 2449* 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16
>
>Command (m for help): n
>Segmentation fault
>
>#
>
>[end]
>
>any idea why this happens and how to partition it using fdisk?
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