Fix overlapping partitions
- by Alex
I have problem with overlapping partitions. GParted shows me all my disk as unallocated area, output of fdisk below:
alex@alex-ThinkPad-SL510:~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders, total 625142448 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xfb4b9b90
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 2457599 1227776 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 2457600 571351724 284447062+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 571342846 604661759 16659457 5 Extended
/dev/sda4 604661760 625137663 10237952 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda5 598650880 604661759 3005440 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 571342848 598650879 13654016 83 Linux
Partition table entries are not in disk order
Do I understand correctly that overlapping partitions are sda2 and sda3 (sda2 and sda6 overlaps too, because sda6 is the first chunk of sda3, sda3 has type "extended")? Are sda2 and sda3 the cause of problem? How can i fix it without deleting partitions?
My OS is Ubuntu 12.04, 64 bit. Thanks in advance.
