On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 02:06:47PM -0400, Chuck Anderson wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 08:25:29PM +0300, cornel panceac wrote: > > 2008/10/11 Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R <caf@xxxxxxxx> > > > > > Here is the fdisk printout for the "offending" partition table. > > > The MBR boots to sda8 (openSUSE). > > > > > > Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes > > > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders > > > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > > Disk identifier: 0xe4c0e4c0 > > > > > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > > > /dev/sda1 * 1 6374 51199123+ 7 HPFS/NTFS > > > /dev/sda2 6375 6505 1052257+ 83 Linux > > > /dev/sda3 6506 24379 143572905 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) > > > /dev/sda4 19259 21808 20482875 83 Linux > > > /dev/sda5 6506 6897 3148708+ 82 Linux swap / > > > Solaris > > > /dev/sda6 6898 9508 20972826 83 Linux > > > /dev/sda7 9509 11941 19543041 83 Linux > > > /dev/sda8 11942 15588 29294496 83 Linux > > > /dev/sda9 15589 18020 19535008+ 83 Linux > > > /dev/sda10 18021 19258 9944203+ 83 Linux > > > /dev/sda11 21809 24379 20651526 83 Linux > > > > you have a primary partition over an extended? > > Yes, this looks like a broken partition table with overlapping > partitions. Not necessarily. /dev/sda4 sits between sda10 and sda11 but /dev/sda3 is extended. Things are out of order and that may be not to liking of some tools. > This might > be fixable by moving sda4 to the extended partition, in which case it > would become sda11 and sda11 would become sda12, but it may be tricky > to do it. Nah! This shold be very simple to do. Redirect an output of 'sfdisk -d /dev/sda' to a file, edit results to put that into an order and feed that to sfdisk back. This should be it. Rewrites of partition tables do not touch file systems although fstab may need some fixups depending on how it was done. Keep a copy of an original ouput from 'sfdisk -d /dev/sda' (or even better an image of the current partition table too) in case you messed something and you need to restore the current state. Michal -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
