Re: fdisk problem

[Werner Reisberger <werner@pure.ch>]

On Sat, May 13, 2000 at 08:13:03PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > /dev/sdb11        1024     1061     1085   200781   82  Linux swap
> > /dev/sdb12        1024     1086     1115   240943+  83  Linux native
> > 
> > I deleted partition 11 and 12 but after creating a new partition starting
> > at cylinder 1061 there is still the wrong bin value of 1024.
> > 
> i don't think, that this is a problem. the dos-ish partition table can
> hold only numbers from 0 to 1023 (means 1..1024). thus, if something
> bigger is needed, 1023 is stored, which is read as 1024 and is ignored
> anyway. only the starting sector number is relevant.

Maybe it isn't a problem, but fdisk complains about overlapping areas if
I make a partition check (v):

Warning: partition 10 overlaps partition 11.
Warning: partition 10 overlaps partition 12.
Warning: partition 11 overlaps partition 12.
578832 unallocated sectors

> the begin column in your partition dump is unimportant (only the dos
> boot sector and older lilo versions care about it). the start column
> is calculated from the beginning sector and is the authoritive number.

Werner