Re: Recursive partition

[Søren Vedsted]

Hi Andrew.

Well... a new day a new problem...

As you suggested I went ahead with the rescue process. But now it turns up
that parted 1.4 18 doesn't have a rescue posibillity and parted 1.6.3 tells me:

Error: Unable to satisfy all constraints on the partition

So what do a wise man do then?

I don't know if it is of any good for you, but I forgot to tell that I have
inserted the old (faulty) disk as slave in my computer. And the new disk as
master. If I try to start the computer as a Windows machine it stop right
after LILO, whereas the Linux machine happily goes along starting up.

I have wondered if I can /should try to delete some of the 55 partition all
residing on the same place? But I am unsure of how to do it.

Do you have time for another hint?

Thanks in advance

Regards
Søren

P.S. I take it that I primarily shall send my posting to <address@hidden>.
I have however send this to your personal mail adress also, as I am a bit
unsure of how things are working. Shall I drop that in case there is a need
for a mail or two more?

Andrew Clausen <address@hidden> said:

> Hi Soren,
> 
> On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 09:53:13PM -0000, S?ren Vedsted wrote:
> > Now starting parted 1.4.18 claims that there is a concurrent partition, and
> > starting parted 1.6.3 informs the following:
> > 
> > Warning: unable to allign partition properly. This probably means that 
> > another
> > partition tool generated an incorrect partition table, because it didn't 
> > have
> > the correct BIOS geometry. It is safe to ignore, but ignore may cause
> > (fixable) problems with some boot loaders.
> 
> You can ignore this, unless you're using CHS, which is quite unlikely.
> 
> > Now, what do I do, if I want my logical fat partition back? I was of course
> > here I saved everything I made, both from the Windows partition and from the
> > Linux partition.
> > Can I just go ahead with rescue?
> 
> Can't hurt!  (I presume you're talking about parted's rescue command?)
> 
> > and how precise shall my guess be about
> > beginning and ending of the partition?
> 
> You have to be within 10%.
> 
> Cheers,
> Andrew
> 
> 
> 
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