Re: resize partition with qtparted and "head 255 greater than maximum 16"

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

H.S. wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I haa a fully populated disk hda in which the first two primary
> partitions were fat32. The first one had Windows XP in it and the second
>  one had non-OS data.
>
> I wanted to shrink the second one to enlarge the first one.
>
> I used Knoppix 4.02 CD and qtparted to shrink the second one by 3.16G. I
> can boot into Windows XP and Debian now, but in Debian I get this when I
> run "fdisk /dev/hda":
>
> Command (m for help): v
> Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
> Partition 2: head 255 greater than maximum 16
> 6649951 unallocated sectors

<snip>

I would try http://www.ranish.com/part/
That tool is located on a swiss army knife CD called UBCD, ultimate boot cd:
http://mackan.servehttp.com/bootcd/ubcd.zip

My extensive database backed notes failed me again: I don't know where I 
got the CD from, but ranish is very good. Google for ultimate boot cd.

I mistrust any resizeing tool. Years ago that M$ based for pay resizer, 
completely screwed up a linux partition resizing. Unless someone can 
prove of course that resizing in fact *did* work.

H