From: Emmanuel Stone (eman at domain eircom.net)
Date: Mon 03 Jul 2000 - 11:56:03 IST
Replying to my own message [sorry]
I've been playing around with dosfsck and it continues to segfault on
one partition despite the fact that the originally offending drives have
been nicely cleaned up.
Can anyone eithir suggest why it is segfaulting or an alternative or a
way to fix it?
Or am I on the completely wrong track and is what's below with scary
errors about partitions not ending on cylinder boundaries what is reall
wrong?
Sorry to keep pestering, I'm just in a bit of a predicament. I have no
means of backup whatsoever and this is my only drive.
-eman
> hard drive is ~= 10 gigs
> I want to keep as much of it as is possible. ie linux partition in tact,
> c:, and another partition which was my secondary on windows and i think
> erm hda7 but that's a guess.
> basically what i think should be there is, a primary partition with
> windows stuff, an extended partition (not sure if that's right name
> logical seems familiar too) with a fat and an ext2 partition, there was
> also some free space floating around which was later 'fat'ted which i
> think may be causing problems. i suspect that the free space was in
> front of the other two (if that makes no sense ignore it i said it
> because the 'empty' partitions under windows were before my old seconday
> partition) i hope i'm still making sense. It's getting late and i'm
> getting more and more disheartened, anyway here is the output of fdisk
>
> Command (m for help): Command (m for help):
> Disk /dev/hda1: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1247 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1p1 ? 105945 207378 814758329+ 74 Unknown
> Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary:
> phys=(366, 104, 37) should be (366, 254, 63)
> /dev/hda1p2 ? 82801 116350 269488144 65 Novell Netware 386
> Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary:
> phys=(10, 121, 13) should be (10, 254, 63)
> /dev/hda1p3 ? 33551 120595 699181456 53 OnTrack DM6 Aux3
> Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary:
> phys=(324, 77, 19) should be (324, 254, 63)
> /dev/hda1p4 ? 243332 243336 32669+ bb Unknown
> Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary:
> phys=(96, 0, 7) should be (96, 254, 63)
>
> Command (m for help):
>
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