Issue with Many Extended partitions

Jeff91 · 09-09-2010, 10:20 AM

Out put from "p" in fdisk:

Code:

Disk /dev/sda: 640.1 GB, 640135028736 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77825 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x023aefa5

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1       54828   440405878+   5  Extended
/dev/sda2   *       42444       49863    59597824   83  Linux
/dev/sda3           49863       52295    19530752   83  Linux
/dev/sda5               1         571     4586494+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6             572       42443   336336808+  83  Linux
/dev/sda7           52296       54828    20346291   83  Linux
/dev/sda8           52295       52295        6564   83  Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

~Jeff

syg00 · 09-09-2010, 07:56 PM

Well, that does look a bit odd - try changing the partitions in testdisk to "L".