On Sat, May 13, 2000 at 08:13:03PM +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > /dev/sdb11 1024 1061 1085 200781 82 Linux swap > > /dev/sdb12 1024 1086 1115 240943+ 83 Linux native > > > > I deleted partition 11 and 12 but after creating a new partition starting > > at cylinder 1061 there is still the wrong bin value of 1024. > > > i don't think, that this is a problem. the dos-ish partition table can > hold only numbers from 0 to 1023 (means 1..1024). thus, if something > bigger is needed, 1023 is stored, which is read as 1024 and is ignored > anyway. only the starting sector number is relevant.
Maybe it isn't a problem, but fdisk complains about overlapping areas if I make a partition check (v): Warning: partition 10 overlaps partition 11. Warning: partition 10 overlaps partition 12. Warning: partition 11 overlaps partition 12. 578832 unallocated sectors > the begin column in your partition dump is unimportant (only the dos > boot sector and older lilo versions care about it). the start column > is calculated from the beginning sector and is the authoritive number. Werner
