Re: [TCLUG:4379] Linux threat to Microsoft grows - Mar. 1, 1999

[Hector Meneses - PRA <meneseh@prasol.com>]

Thanks Steve!. How long have you been working with that setup??

Hector.

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> From: sos@skypoint.com (Steve Siegfried)
> Subject: Re: [TCLUG:4379] Linux threat to Microsoft grows - Mar. 1, 1999
> 
> 
> Hector,
> 
> I've seen the "Warning: partition X overlaps partition Y." message, too.  In
> can only conclude that the "verify" subcommand of fdisk is broken... 'Cause
> my layout works even if the verify subcommand does complain.
> 
> You need to verify _by_ _hand_ that you do or do not have parititions
> overlapping.  Suppose for example you've got a partition table that looks
> like:
> 	> Command (m for help): p
> 	>
> 	> Disk /dev/hdb: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 7752 cylinders
> 	> Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes
> 	>
> 	>    Device Boot    Start      End   Blocks   Id  System
> 	> /dev/hdb1             1     1023   515560+   6  DOS 16-bit >=32M
> 	> /dev/hdb2          1024     3023  1008000   83  Linux native
> 	> /dev/hdb3          3024     5023  1008000   83  Linux native
> 	> /dev/hdb4          5024     7752  1375416   82  Linux swap
> 
> For each partition on the drive, make sure that there's no overlap with
> any other partition both at the beginning of the paritition and at the
> end... i.e.: the set of integers formed by the "Start"/"End" pair should
> be disjoint for all usable partitions.  The easiest way to lay a disk out
> this way is to remove all partitions, then allocate them in serial order,
> starting the 2'nd through n'th partitions at the NEXT block after the end
> of the previous partition.
> 
> Hope this help'idly,
> 
> -S
> 
> 
> Hector Meneses - PRA wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Wade,
> > 
> > I'm wondering if you might help me with this:
> > 
> > - I have a 10,800 MB hard disk which I'd like to put Windows and Linux. I 
> > utilized fdisk to partition the disk but fdisk just see 8GB out of the 10GB. I 
> > decided to change the number of heads, cylinders and sectors (the disk geometry) 
> > to fill the 10800MB. The disk geometry is this:
> > 
> > heads  128,  sectors   63,  cylinders   2651.
> > 
> > With that geometry fdisk can see almost the whole disk. After that I created 4 
> > partitions :
> > 
> > 1 120MB   linux boot
> > 2 3.5GB   Windows
> > 3 128MB   linux swap
> > [4 The rest of the disk  extended.]
> > 5 1GB     /usr
> > 
> > The problem arose when I tried to add another partition 
> > 6 1GB     /home
> > 
> > When I utilized the command "v" (verify) fdisk said that partitions 5 and 6 were 
> > overlaped. Something that I have noticed is that this problem arises only when 
> > the two partitions are above cylinder 1024. In my case partition 5 is starting 
> > under cylinder 1024 (979), but partition 6 is way over cylinder 1024.
> > 
> > I have found some documents where it's said that for IDE hd's there's a 8GB 
> > limit but those documents are very very old and the linux community is 
> > continously improving the software, so I'm sure there's a workaround somewhere. 
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks...
> > 
> > Hector.
> <SNIP>
> 
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