[clue-tech] How to repair an overlapped partition

[Angelo Bertolli]

Angelo Bertolli wrote:
> 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?
Since you didn't format hda3, I think you can just destroy it without worry.