[H-GEN] fdisk Worries me.

[James Deucker]

At 02:33  23/07/98 +1000, you wrote:
>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:
>

those are very good drives. i still have mine after a couple of years, and
it'll be going for a few more ;-)

<snip partition table>
>   /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
>
>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
>

this is from a very hazy memory, but "Begin" had something to do with how
the BIOS would read the partition table. Go into Expert mode t check what
sectors things start and end on if you're actually worried. More than that,
read the appropriate documentnation (RTFM?)

>Do I have anything to worry about?
>

no, you don't as the partitions that are 1024 cyls are not DOS 16bit.

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

I believe that would be an Auto-LART would it not? At least I don't have to
hit myself with a stuffed salmon for giving out UI here...

J

[0] Un-referenced footnote: Hi ho hi ho, it's off to ASR I go...