[haiku-development] Re: Partition table troubles
- From: Urias McCullough <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 10:14:55 -0700
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 8:30 AM, François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> boundary, which sfdisk whine about but doesn't choke on, and hdb10 is
>> physically located just before hdb5, but for some reason is listed last.
>
> This is likely because it is chained in this order in the extended partition.
> i.e. there was an empty space, and it was added last in there, but at the end
> of the partition chain list. It doesn't harm, just complicates things.
The partition order can be fixed to change the partitions to match
their physical order - linux fdisk has a "fix partition order" option
in the expert mode.
This will however break any grub or fstab settings that rely on the
partition table order rather than the physical order.
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