Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [OT] Odd partition overlapping problem | From | Robert Holmberg <> | Date | 14 Nov 2001 10:02:59 -0500 |
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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)
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