by I'm having a little problem that may not actually be a problem. That is, it
isn't causing any troubles, but the error messages and warnings have me
slightly concerned.
fdisk 1.01, when asked to verify my main drive, complained about overlaps,
partitions not ending on cylinder boundaries, and logical partitions not
wholly inside the extended partition. I bit the bullet, backed everything
up, and deleted partitions 3-8. Then I created new ones. The error
messages are very similar to what I had before. As far as I can tell, fdisk
doesn't seem to like it when I have two partitions within one 1024-cylinder
block (that is, although hda1 and hda2 aren't considered "overlapping",
hda2, hda3, and hda5, which all have one or more cylinders in the range
1024-2408, are supposed to be overlapping, and the same is true for all the
partitions that have a cylinder in the range 2048-3072). I *can't* reduce
hda2 by a cylinder (that's my boot partition; trying to fiddle things about
in there strikes me as a recipe for disaster).
Can anyone suggest a reason why the error messages appear? Or what meaning
the "begin" column has? I can't find any documentation for either error
messages or the begin column (nor can I figure out how to change the begin
column, for that matter). Why are all my logical partitions marked as
ending not on a cylinder boundary? They were created using +cylinders, in
whole cylinders. BTW, hdb doesn't show any of these problems.
I'd appreciate any feedback, including pointers to detailed documentation
for fdisk.
Here's the output of fdisk -l:
Disk /dev/hda: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 3146 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 1 959 483304+ 7 OS/2 HPFS
/dev/hda2 * 960 960 1024 32760 83 Linux native
/dev/hda3 1024 1025 1537 258552 83 Linux native
/dev/hda4 1024 1538 3146 810936 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 1024 1538 2050 258520+ 83 Linux native
/dev/hda6 2048 2051 2563 258520+ 83 Linux native
/dev/hda7 2048 2564 2948 194008+ 83 Linux native
/dev/hda8 2048 2949 3146 99760+ 83 Linux native
Disk /dev/hdb: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 1046 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 1 1 261 131512+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/hdb2 262 262 912 328104 5 Extended
/dev/hdb3 913 913 973 30744 83 Linux native
/dev/hdb4 974 974 1046 36792 82 Linux swap
/dev/hdb5 262 262 912 328072+ 7 OS/2 HPFS
Here's the message displayed at startup of fdisk [/dev/hda]:
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 3146.
This is larger than 1024, and may cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software form other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
Warning: ignoring extra data in partition table 5
Warning: ignoring extra data in partition table 5
Here's the output of the 'v' command:
Warning: partition 2 overlaps partition 3.
Warning: partition 2 overlaps partition 5.
Warning: partition 3 overlaps partition 5.
Warning: partition 5 overlaps partition 6.
Warning: partition 5 overlaps partition 7.
Warning: partition 6 overlaps partition 7.
Warning: partition 5 overlaps partition 8.
Warning: partition 6 overlaps partition 8.
Warning: partition 7 overlaps partition 8.
Logical partition 5 not entirely in partition 4
523205 unallocated sectors
Thanks in advance.
Amy!
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