FATAL ERROR: Bad logical partition 7: enlarged logical partitions overlap

stf92 · 03-18-2016, 03:49 PM

That is a message from cfdisk after having been invoked in my machine. How can it be that it is the only one to detect the problem? Neither fdisk nor parted detect it.

Didier Spaier · 03-18-2016, 04:19 PM

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...or-4175502245/
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=169113

stf92 · 03-18-2016, 06:43 PM

Code:

root@server:~# parted
GNU Parted 3.1
Using /dev/sda
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) p free                                                           
Model: ATA ST9320423AS (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 320GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start   End     Size    Type      File system  Flags
        32.3kB  1049kB  1016kB            Free Space
 1      1049kB  2000MB  1999MB  primary   fat32        lba
 4      2000MB  24.0GB  22.0GB  primary   fat32        lba
 2      24.0GB  45.0GB  21.0GB  primary   ntfs         boot
 3      45.0GB  320GB   275GB   extended               lba
        45.0GB  235GB   190GB             Free Space
 7      235GB   255GB   19.9GB  logical   ext2
 5      255GB   275GB   20.0GB  logical   ext2
 6      275GB   320GB   45.2GB  logical   ntfs

(parted)

So, in the presence of this listing I can safely proceed to erase, via parted, any partition without affecting the others. And cfdisk is wrong while parted is right.