On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 11:16:47AM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > Hi all > > When running fdisk -l I get the following: > > box:~ # fdisk -l > > Disk /dev/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 787 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hda1 * 1 11 20632+ 83 Linux > Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings: > phys=(40, 15, 63) logical=(10, 15, 63) > Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary: > phys=(40, 15, 63) should be (40, 63, 63) > /dev/hda2 11 76 131544 82 Linux swap > Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): > phys=(41, 0, 1) logical=(10, 16, 1) > Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings: > phys=(301, 15, 63) logical=(75, 31, 63) > Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary: > phys=(301, 15, 63) should be (301, 63, 63) > /dev/hda3 76 787 1434384 83 Linux > Partition 3 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): > phys=(302, 0, 1) logical=(75, 32, 1) > Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings: > phys=(1023, 15, 63) logical=(786, 63, 63) > Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary: > phys=(1023, 15, 63) should be (1023, 63, 63) > > Disk /dev/hdb: 128 heads, 63 sectors, 782 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 8064 * 512 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hdb1 1 381 1536160+ 83 Linux > /dev/hdb2 382 762 1536192 83 Linux > /dev/hdb3 763 782 80640 83 Linux > > I have 2 HDs, hda and hdb; both have 3 partitions. hda is the system > disk containing a /boot, a / and a swap partition. > > What can I do about the "Partition X has different physical ..." lines > from fdisk -l's output? Anyone experienced this before? Harmful? > > Things seem fine; havent'd had problems so far... > > I'd like to be CC'ed. If I'm doing my math right, your /dev/hda is a 1.5 GB disk. Which seems a bit small for the issue I suspect. But I suck at math. Something in th 6-12 GB range would more likely have these issues. Usually I get this sort of message if I've got my disk geometry configured wrong. Read the LILO docs on specifying disk geometry in /etc/lilo.conf or at the boot prompt. It's cyl/sec/head or cyl/head/sec or something like that. See if your fdisk isn't happier after this. Kernel version may make a difference as well, but I believe this refers to larger disks than you seem to be dealing with. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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