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List:       evms-devel
Subject:    Re: [Evms-devel] Dirty volumes
From:       Andrew Clausen <clausen () gnu ! org>
Date:       2001-10-08 3:42:11
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On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 01:43:29PM -0500, Don Mulvey wrote:
> But you could use fdisk to reorder them and wind up with shifted partitions
> ...

You can?!

> hda1[P], hda4[E], hda5[L-LBA=16128] and hda6[L-LBA=48258]
> 
> The reorder is done by swapping extended partition records around so that
> the ebr chain follows partitions in their physical layout ... NOT ... in
> the
> order in which they were created.

This isn't always possible, since logical partition 5 can start on head 0
(if it is a different cylinder to the extended partition), but all other
logical partitions must start on at least head 1.  (A similar constraint
applies for LBA, just it's sectors rather than heads...)

Andrew

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