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Peter Oliver |
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renumbered partitions |
Date: |
Sun, 25 Jan 2004 15:37:37 +0000 (GMT) |
The partitioning tool in the installer of a certain well-know operating
system decided to renumber the partitions on my disk. Linux fdisk now
shows the following:
Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1275 10241406 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda2 1276 1281 48195 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 5001 9729 37985692+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda4 6001 8000 16064968+ 8e Linux LVM
/dev/hda5 5001 6000 8032437 8e Linux LVM
/dev/hda6 8001 9729 13888161 8e Linux LVM
My understanding is that logical partitions are supposed to start from
number 5, whereas I now have one numbered 4. I guess this explains the
following behaviour from parted:
GNU Parted 1.6.3
Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
Using /dev/hda
Warning: Unable to align partition properly. This probably means that another
partitioning tool generated an incorrect partition table, because it didn't
have
the correct BIOS geometry. It is safe to ignore,but ignoring may cause
(fixable) problems with some boot loaders.
Ignore/Cancel? i
Error: Unable to satisfy all constraints on the partition.
(parted) p
Error: Unable to satisfy all constraints on the partition.
Now, what I would like to do is create a partition from the free space
1281-5001. What are my chances?
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Peter Oliver
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