[CS-FSLUG] overlapping partitions

[Hilding]

Stephen J. McCracken wrote:

>Hilding Egestal wrote:
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>>The three partitions sda 7,8 and swap are connected to
>>PCLinuxOS and I would like to take them away.
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>I would guess that you could use fdisk to just delete them, but don't
>guarantee anything.  My guess would be that this is the problem:
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>>>/dev/sda4            5249       19457   114133792+  
>>>5
>>>      
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>>>/dev/sda8           18954       19458     4050900  
>>>82
>>> Linux växling / Solaris
>>>      
>>>
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>Your last linus partition ends outside the extended partition (19458 >
>19457).
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>sjm
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May I ask, is it "sudo fdisk (and then??) in Terminal?