From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DtCH0-0006Ep-Pm for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 22:33:43 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6EMWIQ1000166; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 22:32:18 GMT Received: from nproxy.gmail.com (nproxy.gmail.com [64.233.182.194]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6EMQPLc009528 for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 22:26:26 GMT Received: by nproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i2so127521nfe for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 15:26:33 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=nVRyi1mssAGwS9eYpC5Hbr4I5RIAqe47c7OS75I4EPawxtxmp/DJD2gZ4JqKYuc8UGZSdc4YELhHROQPnWLd0cX6CnzpMoVj11DWIzKcLiwyQizM3mBx22qVQkddxq55sFUmiwgLjI4v/qSzoZmGPcdojIjzExepn3xOe+38Ams= Received: by 10.48.4.10 with SMTP id 10mr88769nfd; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 15:26:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.48.143.13 with HTTP; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 15:26:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 00:26:33 +0200 From: "Robert G. Siebeck" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] fdisk errors after repartitioning Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j6EMQPLc009528 X-Archives-Salt: 1e47fc14-645e-40d4-bd71-591654289077 X-Archives-Hash: c58ffb8d23df659f537aa6192eb0d7f6 Hi, I recently repartitioned my harddisk. Before my HD had 4 partitions, all primary ones: boot, swap, Linux (Reiserfs) and Windows (FAT32). I shrinked the reiserfs-partition and then deleted it. I deleted swap, too. Then I created an extended partition. Within this extended partition I created a new logical partition which had the same start and end cylinders as the resized Reiserfs partition. Further I created a new swap partition within the extended partition and created a (primary) partition for FreeBSD on the place freed by resizing the Reiser-partition. Actually everything seems to work, I'm not missing any files and all systems (Linux, FreeBSD and Windows) work fine. The only thing which seems strange is an error thrown by fdisk: # fdisk /dev/hda The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 116280. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 116280 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 130 65488+ 83 Linux Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/hda2 131 79717 40111848 5 Extended Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/hda3 * 79718 95960 8186314+ a5 FreeBSD Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/hda4 95964 116279 10239264 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/hda5 2212 79717 39063024 83 Linux /dev/hda6 131 2211 1048792+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris cfdisk doesn't even start but stops with the following message: FATAL ERROR: Bad logical partition 6: enlarged logical partitions overlap Press any key to exit cfdisk Do you have any ideas how I could get rid of these messages? Thanks in advance! Regards, Robert. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list