Partition problems

Rasjid Wilcox rasjidw at openminddev.net
Fri Jun 21 22:29:39 EST 2002


I rearranged my hard drives to free up my 15G drive so I can put it in another 
machine.  However, I think I have messed things up a little.

# /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/hda

Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 5005 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *         1       251   2015968+   c  Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary:
     phys=(1023, 15, 63) should be (1023, 254, 63)
/dev/hda2           251      1658  11296152    5  Extended
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary:
     phys=(1023, 15, 63) should be (1023, 254, 63)
/dev/hda4          1658      5006  26896968   83  Linux
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary:
     phys=(1023, 15, 63) should be (1023, 254, 63)
/dev/hda5           251       893   5152360+  83  Linux
/dev/hda6           893      1148   2047720+  83  Linux
/dev/hda7          1148      1403   2047720+  83  Linux
/dev/hda8          1403      1530   1024096+  83  Linux
/dev/hda9          1530      1658   1024096+  82  Linux swap

However, if I go into fdisk and change c/h/s to 16383/16/63
 (which is what is printed on the drive) I get

Disk /dev/hda: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 16383 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *         1      4000   2015968+   c  Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda2          4001     26413  11296152    5  Extended
/dev/hda4         26414     79780  26896968   83  Linux
/dev/hda5          4001     14223   5152360+  83  Linux
/dev/hda6         14224     18286   2047720+  83  Linux
/dev/hda7         18287     22349   2047720+  83  Linux
/dev/hda8         22350     24381   1024096+  83  Linux
/dev/hda9         24382     26413   1024096+  82  Linux swap

I'm trying to work out if I have stuffed up big time??

My home partition seems to be okay, which is all I really care about, so is my 
best option to backup my home partition to my newly free 15G drive, and just 
start from scratch on the 40G?

Rasjid.





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