fdisk question
Fdisk reports that the physical and logical number of cylinders on a
partition are different:
Disk /dev/hda: 128 heads, 63 sectors, 620 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8064 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 1 172 693472+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/hda2 * 178 178 178 4032 a OS/2 Boot Manager
/dev/hda3 173 173 177 20160 16 Unknown
/dev/hda4 179 179 620 1782144 5 Extended
Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(618, 127, 63) logical=(619, 127, 63)
/dev/hda5 179 179 266 354784+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/hda6 267 267 610 1386976+ 83 Linux native
/dev/hda7 611 611 620 40288+ 82 Linux swap
Since the end cylinder is on my swap partition, would it be safe for me to
run swapoff, umount /dev/hda7 and then change the end cylinder of hda7 to
619? I did a complete backup--just in case.
If there's a safer way to fix this, I'd like to hear that. Everything is
working, but I'm using the OS/2 Boot Manager in Partition Magic and wanted
to change some boot parameters. PM won't let me do anything because of
the partition error.
Bob
---
Bob Nielsen Internet: nielsen@primenet.com
Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: w6swe@01.w6swe.ampr.org
http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen/
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
Reply to: