[clue-tech] How to repair an overlapped partition

[Angelo Bertolli]

Collins Richey wrote:
> For now I'm avoiding any use of hda3 and Windows as well, but it would
> be nice to be able to correct the problem. Is there a utility that
> will safely perform this type of microsurgery, ie move the starting
> cylinder boundary for hda3 forward by 1 cylinder without disturbing
> any other partitions?
Hmmm, you can do that with fdisk if you like, assuming you have nothing 
on hda3 that you care about... you can just destroy it and recreate it 
starting at whatever cylinder you want.  But who knows what's on that 
overlap?  Did you mess up the NTFS partition by overwriting the very end 
of it with a FAT32 table?  I don't know NTFS physically allocates 
blocks.  Maybe you want to use ntfsresize to shrink it by one cylinder?

Angelo