Sunday, 19 May 2013

Fix Overlapping Partitions

Fix Overlapping Partitions

Today I went to resize one of my drivers partitions as I am currently switching from Ubuntu to ArchLinux as my main OS. However when I go into Gparted I get the error "Cant have overlapping partitions". Checking Fdisk gives the below resolt:
   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *        2048      206847      102400    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2          206848   318586879   159190016    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3       770101248   976773167   103335960   83  Linux
/dev/sda4       318588926   770103295   225757185    5  Extended
Partition 4 does not start on physical sector boundary.
/dev/sda5       318588928   770101247   225756160   83  Linux
Looks like sda4 is overlapping with sda3. I know my partitions are a big of a mess, one of the reason I am moving from Ubuntu so I can remove the sda4 and 5 leaving just Windows (sad1+2) and arch linux (sda 3).
So I guess my question is how to fix this overlapping. if possible by shirking sda4/5 so there is no longer a over lap?
I would prefer to keep retain my data but everything is backed up so if there realy is no other option I could to a complete clean install... but why I am here is to see if there is anything way first.
Thank you and if you need any more info let me know!

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