[CS-FSLUG] overlapping partitions
Tim Young
Tim.Young at LightSys.org
Mon Oct 23 14:00:20 CDT 2006
If you do have overlapping partitions, then your computer is already in
jeopardy. ;)
To better answer your, could you show us your partition table?
The easiest way to do this, under ubuntu, is for you to run fdisk -l
/dev/[drive]
The fdisk "-l" is the letter L (lower-case)
the /dev/drive will be something like: /dev/hda
You may have to do a sudo:
sudo fdisk -l /dev/hda
An overlapping partition, depending on what the partition is, and if you
have data on both the partitions that overlap, *will* result in lost
data. Basically the end result is that two filesystems share the same
hard-disk space. It is a bad idea to have partitions that overlap.
- Tim Young
Hilding Egestal wrote:
> Hello
> Well, I think there is something wrong with the
> partition table. I cannot use Norton Partition Magic
> and have a look at the partitions. With gparted it is
> said that nothing is allocated. QTparted offers a
> possibility to make a new partition table. What would
> happen with XP, using this offer?
>
> At the same time both XP and Ubuntu are still working
> without problems, so actually I can live with this,
> but I am just wondering if there could any major
> problems if I am not dealing with this now.
>
>
> --- John Mark Clayton <clayton256 at gmail.com> skrev:
>
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> This message happened because qtpartd incountered a
>> condition that
>> should never exist. Either there is a bug in
>> qtparted that the authors
>> might want to hear about or there is a problem with
>> your hardrive
>> partition table. Did you follow the instructions
>> for subitting a bug?
>> Make sure you're using the latest stable version and
>> if the message
>> is reproduced send the text to the bug address
>> stated.
>>
>> I have used the gparted to create Windows and Linux
>> partitions and
>> would probably trust the qt version as they both use
>> the same core
>> code, libparted. Many years ago I stopped trusting
>> the Norton tools.
>> Just my opinion.
>>
>> Good luck,
>> Mark
>>
>> On 10/23/06, Hilding <he7316575 at yahoo.se> wrote:
>>
>>> Well, I don't if this is the proper forum to ask
>>>
>> about "overlapping
>>
>>> partitions", but I'll do anyhow.
>>> This is what is said by sudo qtparted:
>>>
>>> Error: Can't have overlapping partitions.
>>> A bug has been detected in GNU Parted. Refer to
>>>
>> the web site of parted
>>
>>> http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html for
>>>
>> more informations of
>>
>>> what could be useful for bug submitting! Please
>>>
>> email a bug report to
>>
>>> bug-parted at gnu.org containing at least the version
>>>
>> (1.6.25.1) and the
>>
>>> following message: Assertion (disk != NULL) at
>>> ../../libparted/disk.c:1074 in function
>>>
>> ped_disk_next_partition() failed.
>>
>>> I cannot understand, if this is due to a bug, or
>>>
>> if I have used the
>>
>>> wrong partition program, or too many partition
>>>
>> programs. (I started with
>>
>>> Norton Partition Magic)
>>>
>>> Well, what do You think? In Ubuntu, qtparted, it
>>>
>> is possible to make a
>>
>>> new partition table. Would that be "dangerous" for
>>>
>> my XP? I have dual
>>
>>> boot with GRUB.
>>>
>>> /Hilding in Sweden
>>>
>>>
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