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No takers on this one? I am trying to delete a NTFS partition in Fedora 2. Because the partition does not end on cylinder boundary, I cannot use Parted to remove it.<BR>
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Thanks, Ian<BR>
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<B>From:</B> Ian Sutherland <iansuth@sbcglobal.net><BR>
<B>To:</B> "General NBLUG chatter about anything Linux, answers to questions, etc." <talk@nblug.org><BR>
<B>Subject:</B> extended partition does not start at a cylinder boundary<BR>
<B>Date:</B> Sun, 22 Aug 2004 10:39:17 -0700<BR>
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I have created a problem that I do not know how to fix, "extended partition does not start at a cylinder boundary". Help.<BR>
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[root@localhost sbin]# sfdisk -l /dev/hdd<BR>
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Disk /dev/hdd: 79656 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors/track<BR>
Warning: extended partition does not start at a cylinder boundary.<BR>
DOS and Linux will interpret the contents differently.<BR>
Units = cylinders of 516096 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0<BR>
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Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System<BR>
/dev/hdd1 * 15+ 66220- 66205- 33367005 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)<BR>
start: (c,h,s) expected (15,15,1) found (1,0,1)<BR>
end: (c,h,s) expected (1023,15,63) found (1023,254,63)<BR>
/dev/hdd2 66221 66422 202 101808 83 Linux<BR>
/dev/hdd3 66423 78615 12193 6145272 83 Linux<BR>
/dev/hdd4 78616 79655 1040 524160 82 Linux swap<BR>
/dev/hdd5 16 39987- 39972- 20145478+ 7 HPFS/NTFS<BR>
start: (c,h,s) expected (16,0,1) found (1,1,1)<BR>
end: (c,h,s) expected (1023,15,63) found (1023,254,63)<BR>
/dev/hdd6 39987+ 66220- 26234- 13221463+ 7 HPFS/NTFS<BR>
start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,15,63) found (1023,1,1)<BR>
end: (c,h,s) expected (1023,15,63) found (1023,254,63)<BR>
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[root@localhost sbin]# sfdisk -l /dev/hdc<BR>
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Disk /dev/hdc: 19590 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors/track<BR>
Warning: extended partition does not start at a cylinder boundary.<BR>
DOS and Linux will interpret the contents differently.<BR>
Warning: The partition table looks like it was made<BR>
for C/H/S=*/255/63 (instead of 19590/16/63).<BR>
For this listing I'll assume that geometry.<BR>
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0<BR>
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Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System<BR>
/dev/hdc1 * 0+ 531 532- 4273258+ 7 HPFS/NTFS<BR>
/dev/hdc2 532 1228 697 5598652+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)<BR>
/dev/hdc3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty<BR>
/dev/hdc4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty<BR>
/dev/hdc5 532+ 650 119- 955836 7 HPFS/NTFS<BR>
/dev/hdc6 651+ 1228 578- 4642753+ 7 HPFS/NTFS<BR>
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Thanks, Ian<BR>
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2 Varda Street
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707-792-6891</PRE>
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