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From: "Robert G. Siebeck" <r.g.siebeck@×××××.com>
To: Benno Schulenberg <benno.schulenberg@×××××.com>, gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] fdisk errors after repartitioning
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 23:54:00
Message-Id: c28d6805071516495a91bfd1@mail.gmail.com
1 Hi Benno,
2
3 2005/7/15, Benno Schulenberg <benno.schulenberg@×××××.com>:
4 >
5 > Hi Robert,
6 >
7 > > /dev/hda5 2212 79717 39063024 83 Linux
8 > > /dev/hda6 131 2211 1048792+ 82 Linux
9 > > swap / Solaris
10 > >
11 > >
12 > > cfdisk doesn't even start but stops with the following message:
13 > >
14 > > FATAL ERROR: Bad logical partition 6: enlarged logical partitions
15 > > overlap Press any key to exit cfdisk
16 >
17 > Have you tried using parted on this disk? I'm quite curious as to
18 > what it will say about these out-of-order partitions, and the
19 > unusual boundaries. (Be careful though with executing other
20 > commands than print, as they act immediately.)
21
22 I tried parted, but it doesn't report any errors:
23
24 (parted) print
25 Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-57231.562 megabytes
26 Disk label type: msdos
27 Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags
28 1 0.031 63.984 primary ext2
29 2 63.984 39235.710 extended
30 6 64.015 1088.226 logical linux-swap
31 5 1088.227 39235.710 logical reiserfs
32 3 39235.711 47230.158 primary boot
33 4 47231.789 57231.070 primary fat32 lba
34
35
36 > Benno
37
38 Robert.
39
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