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Hi, |
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I recently repartitioned my harddisk. Before my HD had 4 partitions, |
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all primary ones: boot, swap, Linux (Reiserfs) and Windows (FAT32). |
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I shrinked the reiserfs-partition and then deleted it. I deleted swap, |
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too. Then I created an extended partition. Within this extended |
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partition I created a new logical partition which had the same start |
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and end cylinders as the resized Reiserfs partition. Further I created |
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a new swap partition within the extended partition and created a |
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(primary) partition for FreeBSD on the place freed by resizing the |
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Reiser-partition. |
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Actually everything seems to work, I'm not missing any files and all |
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systems (Linux, FreeBSD and Windows) work fine. |
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The only thing which seems strange is an error thrown by fdisk: |
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# fdisk /dev/hda |
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The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 116280. |
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There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, |
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and could in certain setups cause problems with: |
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1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) |
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2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs |
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(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) |
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Command (m for help): p |
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Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes |
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16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 116280 cylinders |
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Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes |
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Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System |
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/dev/hda1 1 130 65488+ 83 Linux |
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Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. |
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/dev/hda2 131 79717 40111848 5 Extended |
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Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. |
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/dev/hda3 * 79718 95960 8186314+ a5 FreeBSD |
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Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary. |
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/dev/hda4 95964 116279 10239264 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) |
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Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary. |
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/dev/hda5 2212 79717 39063024 83 Linux |
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/dev/hda6 131 2211 1048792+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris |
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cfdisk doesn't even start but stops with the following message: |
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FATAL ERROR: Bad logical partition 6: enlarged logical partitions overlap |
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Press any key to exit cfdisk |
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Do you have any ideas how I could get rid of these messages? |
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Thanks in advance! |
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Regards, |
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Robert. |
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