Re: The new partition overlaps with another partition

[Andrew Clausen]

Hi Ralf,

On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 09:59:56AM +0100, Ralf Haller wrote:
> > 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...

Ah, ok.

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

hdc1 is an extended partition, and hdc2 is a primary partition.
What you want is to "convert" hdc2 to a logical partition.
There isn't any convienient (read: no bit-bashing) way of doing
this... except perhaps trying to delete the partition, and running
gpart.  Alternatively, you could create another partition (a bigger one),
and copy hdc2 to it (via dd(1)).

Andrew