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Subject: Re: [OT] Odd partition overlapping problem
From: Robert Holmberg <robert.holmberg@helsinki.fi>
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On Wed, 2001-11-14 at 02:48, Andrew Ebling wrote:
> Did you by any chance format/partition the disk using Linux Mandrake
> 7.1/7.2 at some point in the past?  I had a similar problem and
> eventually traced it back to a bug in the Mandrake installer which
> creates overlapping partitions.  I realised after running defrag in
> windows, which quite happily defragmented the first 200MB of my Linux
> partition!

Ouch. I used Mandrake 8.0... It seems my hda 6 os overlapping my hda4.
If I delete my extended partition, restart to windows and use dos fdisk
to create a new d:, there is the risk of this d: overwriting something
more important than my evolution install. I'm going to try this anyway.
I can always set up a swap *file* instead.

Partition table: 
Device 	  Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *         1       523   4200966    c  Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda2           524       525     16065   83  Linux
/dev/hda3           526      2647  17044965   83  Linux
/dev/hda4          2648      3736   8747392+   5  Extended
/dev/hda5          2648      2713    530113+  82  Linux swap
/dev/hda6          2714      3736   8217216    c  Win95 FAT32 (LBA)

Please cc to me, I'm not on the list.

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