Re: The new partition overlaps with another partition

[Ralf Haller]

Andrew Clausen schrieb:

> 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.
>

Hi Andrew,

thanks for your response.

>
> 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?
>

I created the partitions two years ago and had no problems at all since
then. I think I used the installer of RedHat 6.1 for it? Not sure though...

Is it possible to recreate the logical partition hdc1without overlapping
hdc2?

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>
> Andrew