[Bug 103794] Re: Cannot have overlapping partitions

[Steve Dodd]

Fair enough - I think I originally commented here mainly to share my
information on how to fix such mangled partition tables - I don't recall ever
finding out which program caused the problem in the first place!

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Title:
  Cannot have overlapping partitions

Status in “parted” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: parted

  parted thinks I have overlapping partitions:

  sam at rattle:~$ sudo parted /dev/sda
  GNU Parted 1.7.1
  Using /dev/sda
  Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
  (parted) print all                                                        
  Error: Cannot have overlapping partitions.                   

  however, take a look, there is no overlap (apart from all the
  partitions within the extended partition but thats normal)

  sam at rattle:~$ sudo cfdisk -Ps /dev/sda
  Partition Table for /dev/sda

                 First       Last
   # Type       Sector      Sector   Offset    Length   Filesystem Type (ID) Flag
  -- ------- ----------- ----------- ------ ----------- -------------------- ----
   1 Primary           0    75778604     63    75778605 HPFS/NTFS (07)       Boot
   2 Primary    75778605    76951349      0     1172745 Linux (83)           None
   3 Primary    76951350   156296384      0    79345035 W95 Ext'd (LBA) (0F) None
   5 Logical    76951350   108197774    126#   31246425 Linux (83)           None
   6 Logical   108197775   110157704     63     1959930 Linux swap / So (82) None
   7 Logical   110157705   143364059     63    33206355 Linux (83)           None
     Logical   143364060   143364122*     0          63*Free Space           None
   4 Primary   143364123*  156296384      0    12932262*W95 FAT32 (0B)       None

  Whats REALLY scary is that gparted shows the disk as not being partioned at all! I coulda lost all my data.
  it should have passed on the error instead of assuming no partition.

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