On 11/17/2009 04:04 PM, Jim wrote:
FC11/Mint I have a fdisk output that is showing a cylinder overlap , how would I fix this problem ? How can you tell using fdisk which partitions are / ? These partition are for Fedora and Mint a Dual boot
(copied from original message) Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 26 204800 83 Linux Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda2 26 15325 122887168 83 Linux (end copy) I don't like the overlap on cylinder 26, but it's not fatal. (more copied stuff) /dev/sda4 24249 38913 117796612+ 5 Extended /dev/sda5 24249 24379 1048576 82 Linux swap / (end copy) If you're worried about the overlap between /dev/sda4 and /dev/sda5, don't. /dev/sda4 is the "extended" partition and all the others are inside of it, so sda5 will have the same starting cylinder as sda4. You can only have four primary partitions. If you need more than four partitions, then one of those primaries becomes an "extended" partition and partitions 5 through "n" go inside it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer ricks@xxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a - - rigged demo. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
