Attention people with both WinXP and Linux installed

[kungpow]

Are there any people in this group that have both winXP and Linux installed on the same HDD?

If so I would like to know what they get if they run fdisk from their linux installation:

sudo fdisk -l

I get errors and I have heard of another getting the same errors, so I would like to know if there are others experiencing the same problems.

[Roy_W]

I have XP and Ubuntu.
"sudo fisk -l" provides the following result

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 3187 25598128+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 3187 4717 12285000 7 HPFS/NTFS
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda3 4717 5737 8195040 7 HPFS/NTFS
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda4 5738 7296 12522667+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 * 5738 6168 3461976 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 6169 6221 425691 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7 6222 7296 8634906 83 Linux

Other than the "does not end on cylindar boundary" I have no errors.
My hard disk was initially partitioned using the "XP" installation CD so I presume it's probably a miscomprehension between "Linux FDisk" and the "XP partition tool".

I don't "mount" my MS partitions, although I can, and my backup image "Acronis" works without any problem. Personally I ignore this error/message as it creates no problems for either system.

Cheers Roy

[kungpow]

Thank you!! You are now the third person with this error, so I guess it must have something to do with IBM machines and Linux that does not work perfect together

[kungpow]

BTW: Have you tried to run Partition Magic from WinXP?

[dkrizic]

"Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary" is an informational message and no error. It can be ignored safely. It has nothing to do with the machine type.

[kungpow]

What do you base that upon?

I have read that if I later would like to resize the partitions I might get problems because of this error.