[CS-FSLUG] overlapping partitions

[Hilding]

Jerry Van Brimmer wrote:

>On Mon, October 23, 2006 09:31, Hilding wrote:
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>>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:
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>>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.
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>>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)
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>>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.
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>I have used the testdisk utility in the past with great success. It is found here:
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>http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
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>Like I said, I have used it with success, repairing damaged partition tables, but
>use at your own risk.
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>>/Hilding in Sweden
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Thank You for Your advice. I can find a *.rpm-file and a *.tar.gz-file 
on their homepage. I have always found tar-gz files a little bit 
difficult to get in order. RPM-files, could that files be opened within 
Ubuntu? Is it possible with "alien"?

/Hilding in Sweden