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Sometime on May 21, kishor bhagwat assembled some asciibets to say:
> after some reading, i now know that "hole in map file"
> is caused by a hard disk geometry mismatch. On this
> hunch, i tried fdisk , and guess what the output is:
> /dev/hda1 windows pri
> /dev/hda2 ext
> "Partition 2 has different physical /logical ending.."
> /dev/hda5 linux swap
> /dev/hda6 linux native
>
> and on verifying the partition table, the o/p is :
> 186 unallocated sectors.
>
I have never done this, but I think that you can change the disk
cylinders/heads/sectors using fdisk.
If formatting is your only option, then I suggest that you try this first.
If it fails you'll have to format anyway. If you succeed, you can tell us
what you did and we will all benefit.
Philip
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