[Ilugc] Disk overlap error while installing arch linux
- From: knura9@xxxxxxxxx (Arun Khan)
- Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 08:39:39 +0530
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 7:54 AM, balaji sivanath <starbala2008 at gmail.com>
wrote:
/dev/sda2 9562 60800 411576501+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
BTW, which OS (fdisk) did you use to create the extended partition?
Is it possible to rename a partition? like /dev/sda8 into /dev/sda3
without loss of data
sda8 is a logical partition and sda3 is a primary partition.
GNU/fdisk allows selecting a number for a "primary" partition but not
for "logical" partitions. Please read up on what is allowed w.r.t
MSDOS disk partition scheme.
Having said that, yes it is possible with some juggling. Note the
start/end sectors of the partitions. **Backup** your data. Delete
the partitions in question. Make space for a primary partition.
Again I will suggest that you use GParted to do this operation.
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Arun Khan
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