On 2017-07-17 02:00 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 07/16/2017 04:25 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: >> I have a hard drive startaing at 63 >> >> Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary. >> 1+0 records in >> 1+0 records out >> dev/sdb1 * 63 2050047 2049985 1001M c W95 FAT32 (LBA) >> /dev/sdb2 2050048 14338047 12288000 5.9G 83 Linux >> >> Can I fix it easily? > > Fix what? I'm guessing shifting the partition boundaries to align for optimal performance. >> Actually, this was the initial disk of the computer which came >> with a fat32 partition >> Can I backup the partition, and modify the partition table for >> this partition only without any trouble? > > I don't understand what you're trying to do, but the direct answer to > those questions is yes. Probably not, unless they mean to back up all data, delete the old partition, recreate the partition properly aligned and then restore the data. Maybe I'm wrong though, parted's abilities have surprised me before. >> I guess that it is a boot partition recognized by grub > > You got the computer without Windows installed? The default in that > case is often freedos, which appears to be what grub detected it as. > >> In addition, sdb2 is seen as a linux partition by fdisk, > > fdisk just tells you what the partition is marked as in the partition > table. > >> but as a ntfs partition by gparted (and testdisk). I guess that it >> correct. > > gparted and testdisk actually probe the filesystem because they also > deal with the contents of the partitions. > >> HPFS - NTFS 127 155 29 892 128 4 12288000 >> NTFS, blocksize=4096, 6291 MB / 6000 MiB >> >> fsck /dev/sdb2 >> fsck from util-linux 2.28.2 >> Unsupported: replay_log() >> Volume is dirty. >> Unsupported: check_volume() >> Checking 4096 MFT records. >> Unsupported cases found. >> ntfsck was unable to run properly. >> >> ntfs-3g.probe /dev/sdb2 >> ERROR: ntfs-3g.probe: Probe type is missing >> >> But, I can mount it. > > If you can mount it as ntfs and see files, then I guess it's ntfs. > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.com/w/ "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." - Stephen Jay Gould _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
