[H-GEN] fdisk Worries me.

[Jason Henry Parker]

While cleaning out /var/ this afternoon, I've become a little disturbed
about the state of my partitions.  The disk in question is a 2G scsi drive
from IBM, partitioned as follows:

   Disk /dev/sda: 64 heads, 32 sectors, 2063 cylinders
   Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes

      Device Boot   Begin    Start      End   Blocks   Id  System
   /dev/sda1   *        1        1       32    32767+  83  Linux native
   /dev/sda2           33       33       64    32768   82  Linux swap
   /dev/sda3           65       65       96    32768   83  Linux native
   /dev/sda4           97       97     2063  2014208    5  Extended
   /dev/sda5           97       97      596   511999+  83  Linux native
   /dev/sda6          597      597     1096   511999+  83  Linux native
   /dev/sda7         1024     1097     1296   204799+  83  Linux native
   /dev/sda8         1024     1297     2063   785407+  83  Linux native

however, the "v" option of fdisk (verify) says:

   Warning: partition 6 overlaps partition 7.
   Warning: partition 6 overlaps partition 8.
   Warning: partition 7 overlaps partition 8.
   147452 unallocated sectors

Partitions 6 and 7 are /usr/src and /var, respectively, but unfortunately
/dev/sda8 is /home.  :(

Now, according to the "Start" and "End" fields of "p", partitions 6,7
and 8 do *not* overlap, but I'm confused as to the purpose and meaning
of the "Begin" figures.  The partition table *looks* the same as when
I first configured it[1], and fsck -f /dev/sda[678] says they're fine.

Do I have anything to worry about?

[1] : Okay, okay, I didn't keep a paper copy.  Lart administered.

---Jason Parker--henry at freezer.humbug.org.au---
|``This is the sort of bloody nonsense up with|
|  which I will not put.''        -- Churchill|
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