Filesystem errors !! How to fix ???

[Reon Toerien]

Does not appear to ovelap.

Disk /dev/sdb: 19457 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Warning: extended partition does not start at a cylinder boundary.
DOS and Linux will interpret the contents differently.
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

   Device Boot Start     End   #cyls    #blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1          0+  19456   19457- 156288321    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdb2          0       -       0          0    0  Empty
/dev/sdb3          0       -       0          0    0  Empty
/dev/sdb4          0       -       0          0    0  Empty
/dev/sdb5          1     255     255    2048287+   b  W95 FAT32
/dev/sdb6        256+    510     255-   2048256   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb7        511+   3060    2550-  20482843+   b  W95 FAT32
/dev/sdb8       3061+   5610    2550-  20482843+   b  W95 FAT32
                start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,1,1)
/dev/sdb9       5611+   6707    1097-   8811621    b  W95 FAT32
                start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,1,1)
/dev/sdb10      6708+  19456   12749- 102406311   83  Linux
                start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,1,1)
Warning: no primary partition is marked bootable (active)
This does not matter for LILO, but the DOS MBR will not boot this disk.
partition 8: start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,1,1)
partition 9: start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,1,1)
partition 10: start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,1,1)
/dev/sdb: OK


On 27/04/06, Toby Kelsey <toby_kelsey at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Reon Toerien wrote:
> > Ubuntu detects that the /home filesystem is corrupted at every single
> > boot. It does it's little scan, seems to fix it but a few mins into me
> > using kubuntu I start getting error msg that i cannot write to /home.
> > I reboot and the process repeats itself over again in a endless cycle.
>
> Possibly your partitions are overlapping.  What is the output of
>
>   sudo sfdisk -lV /dev/sdb
>
> (in a terminal)?  Check the start and end locations of the partitions.
> If there is an overlap (apart from an 'Extended' partition and the
> following logical ones), you will have to repartition the disk.
>
> Toby
>
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