[clue-tech] How to repair an overlapped partition

[David L. Willson]

On Sun, 10 Sep 2006 00:13:00 -0400, Angelo Bertolli wrote
> David L. Willson wrote:
> >>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> >> /dev/hda1   *         534        5755    41943040+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> >> /dev/hda2               1         533     4281291    b  W95 FAT32
> >> /dev/hda3            5755        5877      982639+   b  W95 FAT32
> >>     
> >
> > BTW, does anyone know how to change the partition IDs w/o otherwise changing the
> > partitions?  If the above example were my drive, I would want to swap the IDs of parts 1
> > and 2, but I've never been able to find out how.
> If they're primary partitions, I think you can just remove the first two 
> with fdisk... then add one and make it 1 - 533, and add the second one 
> and make it 534 - 5755... I assume fdisk will put them in whichever slot 
> is first available in the partitions table.
> 
> Angelo

DOH!  <smacks self>  I should have thought of that.