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 1Dta0F-00036h-Jh for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 23:54:00 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6FNqk8l022107; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 23:52:46 GMT Received: from nproxy.gmail.com (nproxy.gmail.com [64.233.182.205]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6FNnCKa016067 for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 23:49:12 GMT Received: by nproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i2so177543nfe for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 16:49:32 -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:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Ib0u2r6ihmle+fM1wn3/gaGEUReAJyJr07szuc3nX6E/XfvukadnM0xyldkG4zTojvhw2vgbdCzAfeSmin/D5FEDGkzq1dvKE/0lwSCnvoQqafadT/YBoFfVkOIjYeDMu1G2yzg1ebqbAjJmeh8ksLSGWisBG7p5dhwahyGFW7s= Received: by 10.48.249.6 with SMTP id w6mr124035nfh; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 16:49:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.48.143.13 with HTTP; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 16:49:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 01:49:32 +0200 From: "Robert G. Siebeck" To: Benno Schulenberg , gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] fdisk errors after repartitioning In-Reply-To: <200507151348.41719.benno.schulenberg@gmail.com> 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 References: <200507151348.41719.benno.schulenberg@gmail.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j6FNnCKa016067 X-Archives-Salt: 35a289d0-4715-45f2-8392-aac87bc14562 X-Archives-Hash: c30b7a21afb50fef0145cdcba958f84c Hi Benno, 2005/7/15, Benno Schulenberg : > > Hi Robert, > > > /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 > > Have you tried using parted on this disk? I'm quite curious as to > what it will say about these out-of-order partitions, and the > unusual boundaries. (Be careful though with executing other > commands than print, as they act immediately.) I tried parted, but it doesn't report any errors: (parted) print Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-57231.562 megabytes Disk label type: msdos Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags 1 0.031 63.984 primary ext2 2 63.984 39235.710 extended 6 64.015 1088.226 logical linux-swap 5 1088.227 39235.710 logical reiserfs 3 39235.711 47230.158 primary boot 4 47231.789 57231.070 primary fat32 lba > Benno Robert. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list