Greetings. I'm running RedHat 5 and Windows 95 on a 3 GB hard-disk, and in a recent attempt to resize one of my Win95 partitions with Partition Magic, I obtained a 'overlapping partitions' error message. Appended is the output from fdisk in linux. Disk /dev/hda: 128 heads, 63 sectors, 787 cylinders Units = cylinders of 8064 * 512 bytes Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 1 520 2096608+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M /dev/hda2 521 521 727 834624 5 Extended /dev/hda3 650 650 783 540288 83 Linux native /dev/hda4 784 784 787 16128 82 Linux swap /dev/hda5 521 521 649 520096+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M It appears that /dev/hda3 - my linux partition - had overlapped /dev/hda2 - .the extended partition... Can someone please tell me how I could go about fixing this problem? I also believe that /dev/hda3 and /dev/hda4 which I created using Disk Druid are actually primary partitions, which is probably why I couldn't create any more partition as I was installing RH 5. How could I have actually ensured that these partitions ended up on the extended partition instead? Is there a limit to the number of partitions that could exist on the extended one? Thanx in advance! - HT ---------------------------------- linux [2.0.33] only! otherwise write me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] :) E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://xnovice.dyn.ml.org ---------------------------------- -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mailing-lists To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
