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Re: Recursive partition: msg#00050

gnu.parted.bugs

Subject: Re: Recursive partition

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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