J. McConnell on Thu, 5 Dec 2002 11:30:07 -0500


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[PLUG] Disk partitioning woes


My apologies to anyone on the SLUG mailing list, but I didn't get any responses there, so I thought I'd post here to see if anyone could help.  Here's my original post to SLUG:
 
 
I'm having a little trouble with some incorrect partition info that I was hoping someone might be able to help me out with.
 
I have WinXP installed on a 40GB drive with one large NTFS partition.  Then I have Mandrake 8.2 installed on an 80GB drive.  The Windows drive was installed after the Mandrake drive, and when I did it, I created a 10GB FAT32 partition on the linux drive to share files between the two OS's.
 
Now I want to resize the 10GB partition and make it like 50-60GB.  The problem is that when I run Partition Magic 8.0, it says that the entire 80GB drive is "BAD" and that it is all unused.  This is definitely not correct because I can read and write to the 10GB FAT32 partition, and I can boot into and run Mandrake no problem.
 
After booting into linux I ran 'fdisk -l' and it outputted:
 

Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
 
   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *         1      4864  39070048+   7  HPFS/NTFS
 
Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
 
   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdb1   *         1      1340  10763518+  83  Linux
/dev/hdb2          1341      9730  67387194    f  Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary:
     phys=(1023, 80, 63) should be (1023, 254, 63)
/dev/hdb5          1341      1722   3068383+  83  Linux
/dev/hdb6          1723      2013   2337426   82  Linux swap
/dev/hdb7          2014      3299  10329763+   7  HPFS/NTFS
 
Obviously, the problem is that Partition 2 does not end on a cylinder boundary.  What can I do to correct this?  I just want the partition info to be usable by Partition Magic so I can do the resizing.  Any help would be greatly appreciate.
 
 
Thanks in advance,
 
J.