Re: Partitioning GUI tools
hi ya
... re-editing the reply ..
On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Travis Crump wrote:
> Something like nparted, just still supported. :) cfdisk exits with a
> fatal error["FATAL ERROR: Bad logical partition 6: enlarged logical
> partitions overlap"] when I try to run it so that isn't going to work.
i lways create sequential partitions in increasing start/end cylinder
numbers to avoid such silly errors as above
lets see... in cylinder sequence ... no overlap ... just whacky
partition numbers..
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 1 2035 16346106 7 HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda3 2036 5295 26185950 83 Linux
> /dev/hda2 5296 7476 17518882+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/hda6 5296 5298 24034+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda7 5299 5385 698796 b Win95 FAT32
> /dev/hda8 5386 6119 5895823+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda5 6120 7352 9904041 83 Linux
> /dev/hda9 7353 7476 995998+ 82 Linux swap
>
> Partition table entries are not in disk order
bad idea .. for random partition numbering as you can tell from your
original error message
c ya
alvin
partition stuff...
http://www.linux-1u.net/Partition/
disk layout stuff
http://www.linux-1u.net/Tuning/#DiskLayout
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