On 24-Jul-99 Axalon wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Thomas J. Hamman wrote:
>> On the subject of cfdisk and fdisk, does anyone know why cfdisk would give
>> me
>> this message:
>>
>> FATAL ERROR: Bad logical partition 6:
>> Press any key to exit cfdisk
>>
>> and refuse to work, while fdisk and disk druid work just fine with no such
>> errors?
>>
>> hda6 (I assume that's what's referred to by 'logical partition 6') is my
>> swap
>> partition, and I don't know what would be wrong with it. I first got that
>> message when I was playing around with installing Slackware (at least that
>> forced me into acquainting myself with fdisk), so I thought it might have
>> just
>> been Slackware, but cfdisk gives me the same thing in Mandrake.
>>
>>
>> -Tom
>>
>
> whats fdisk -l say, also the table printout from fdisk in expert mode.
fdisk -l says:
[root : ~]# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 788 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 265 2128581 b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda2 266 788 4200997+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 649 776 1028128+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 777 788 96358+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda7 266 457 1542177 83 Linux
/dev/hda8 458 648 1534176 83 Linux
Disk /dev/hdb: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 973 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 973 1961536+ 83 Linux
And the table printout from fdisk:
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 788 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 265 2128581 b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda2 266 788 4200997+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 649 776 1028128+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 777 788 96358+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda7 266 457 1542177 83 Linux
/dev/hda8 458 648 1534176 83 Linux
I appreciate any help you can give.
-Tom
