[H-GEN] fdisk Worries me.
Jason Henry Parker
henry at freezer.humbug.org.au
Thu Jul 23 00:33:21 EDT 1998
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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