Re: The new partition overlaps with another partition

[Andrew Clausen]

On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 12:00:45AM +0100, Ralf Haller wrote:
> when I try to print the partition table with parted's print command I
> get the following error message:
> 
> "The new partition overlaps with another partition"
> 
> /dev/hdc1   *         2       789   6329610    5  Extended
> /dev/hdc2           263       265     24097+  83  Linux

These two partitions overlap.

You have a broken partition table.  I can't see any easy way to
fix this... short of dd'ing hdc2 elsewhere, and removing the partition
with fdisk, and recreating it as a logical partition.

How did you create it?

Andrew