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fdisk problem



After partitioning my HD I deleted three partitions and made two new ones.
Now there is an overlapping of one partition although I didn't enter
the begin value (number of cylinders) displayed by fdisk:

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Disk /dev/sdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1115 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot   Begin    Start      End   Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *        1        1       39   313236   83  Linux native
/dev/sdb2           40       40      167  1028160   fd  Unknown
/dev/sdb3          168      168     1115  7614810    5  Extended
/dev/sdb5          168      168      282   923706   fd  Unknown
/dev/sdb6          283      283      409  1020096   fd  Unknown
/dev/sdb7          410      410      537  1028128+  fd  Unknown
/dev/sdb8          794      794      869   610438+  fd  Unknown
/dev/sdb9          870      870      971   819283+  fd  Unknown
/dev/sdb10         972      972     1060   714861   fd  Unknown
/dev/sdb11        1024     1061     1085   200781   82  Linux swap
/dev/sdb12        1024     1086     1115   240943+  83  Linux native
/dev/sdb13         538      538      793  2056288+  fd  Unknown
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The fd partition type was choosen because I am using software raid.

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.

Thanks for any advice,

 Werner



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