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From: Robert Holmberg <robert.holmberg@helsinki.fi>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [OT] Odd partition overlapping problem
Date: 14 Nov 2001 10:02:59 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1005750180.1234.2.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1005724114.405.0.camel@spinel>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.1011113095524.1544A-100000@chaos.analogic.com>  <1005691726.2007.0.camel@localhost>  <1005724114.405.0.camel@spinel>

On Wed, 2001-11-14 at 02:48, Andrew Ebling wrote:
> Did you by any chance format/partition the disk using Linux Mandrake
> 7.1/7.2 at some point in the past?  I had a similar problem and
> eventually traced it back to a bug in the Mandrake installer which
> creates overlapping partitions.  I realised after running defrag in
> windows, which quite happily defragmented the first 200MB of my Linux
> partition!

Ouch. I used Mandrake 8.0... It seems my hda 6 os overlapping my hda4.
If I delete my extended partition, restart to windows and use dos fdisk
to create a new d:, there is the risk of this d: overwriting something
more important than my evolution install. I'm going to try this anyway.
I can always set up a swap *file* instead.

Partition table: 
Device 	  Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *         1       523   4200966    c  Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda2           524       525     16065   83  Linux
/dev/hda3           526      2647  17044965   83  Linux
/dev/hda4          2648      3736   8747392+   5  Extended
/dev/hda5          2648      2713    530113+  82  Linux swap
/dev/hda6          2714      3736   8217216    c  Win95 FAT32 (LBA)

Please cc to me, I'm not on the list.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-11-14  7:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-13 14:45 Odd partition overlapping problem Robert A H Holmberg
2001-11-13 15:08 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-11-13 22:48   ` [Probably OT] " Robert Holmberg
     [not found]     ` <1005724114.405.0.camel@spinel>
2001-11-14 15:02       ` Robert Holmberg [this message]
2001-11-14 11:02         ` [OT] " Guest section DW
     [not found] ` <20011113165624.A28398@cyclone.neutech.fi>
2001-11-13 22:51   ` [Probably OT] " Robert Holmberg
2001-11-14 11:08 ` Guest section DW

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