Andrew, what do you think about this?

[Doug Nadworny]

Hello,

I'm trying to use parted to expand my Win95 FAT16 (/dev/hda2) to about
6GB from the current 2GB. 

First of all, fdisk ( see attached ) notes that the partition doesn't
end on a cylinder boundary. Not sure how that happened. How can that be
corrected?

The drive is 20GB with the other 18GB devoted to Linux ( Redhat 6.2 ).

So I'd like to take about 4GB from that used by linux, and add it to the
Win95 partition.

Do you have any suggestion as to how to proceed?

I'm a programmer, new to the world of PC's. I've done a bit of system
mgmt on workstations and bigger machines.

Much thanks in advance for any hlep or comments!

Cheers,
Doug N

< yamnuska 5 //root>fdisk /dev/hda -l

Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2482 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1           263       267     40162+  83  Linux
/dev/hda2   *         2       262   2096451    e  Win95 FAT16 (LBA)
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary:
     phys=(261, 253, 63) should be (261, 254, 63)
/dev/hda3           268      2482  17791987+   5  Extended
/dev/hda5           268      2303  16354138+  83  Linux
/dev/hda6          2304      2431   1028128+  83  Linux
/dev/hda7          2432      2448    136521   82  Linux swap
/dev/hda8          2449      2461    104391   83  Linux
/dev/hda9          2462      2468     56196   83  Linux
/dev/hda10         2469      2475     56196   83  Linux
/dev/hda11         2476      2482     56196   83  Linux
< yamnuska 6 //root>fdisk /dev/hda 

The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 2482.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
   (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)

Command (m for help): p


Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2482 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1           263       267     40162+  83  Linux
/dev/hda2   *         2       262   2096451    e  Win95 FAT16 (LBA)
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary:
     phys=(261, 253, 63) should be (261, 254, 63)
/dev/hda3           268      2482  17791987+   5  Extended
/dev/hda5           268      2303  16354138+  83  Linux
/dev/hda6          2304      2431   1028128+  83  Linux
/dev/hda7          2432      2448    136521   82  Linux swap
/dev/hda8          2449      2461    104391   83  Linux
/dev/hda9          2462      2468     56196   83  Linux
/dev/hda10         2469      2475     56196   83  Linux
/dev/hda11         2476      2482     56196   83  Linux

Command (m for help): x

Expert command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2482 cylinders

Nr AF  Hd Sec  Cyl  Hd Sec  Cyl    Start     Size ID
 1 00   0   1  262 254  63  266  4209030    80325 83
 2 80   0   1    1 253  63  261    16065  4192902 0e
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary:
     phys=(261, 253, 63) should be (261, 254, 63)
 3 00   0   1  267 254  63 1023  4289355 35583975 05
 4 00   0   0    0   0   0    0        0        0 00
 5 00   1   1  267 254  63 1023       63 32708277 83
 6 00   1   1 1023 254  63 1023       63  2056257 83
 7 00   1   1 1023 254  63 1023       63   273042 82
 8 00   1   1 1023 254  63 1023       63   208782 83
 9 00   1   1 1023 254  63 1023       63   112392 83
10 00   1   1 1023 254  63 1023       63   112392 83
11 00   1   1 1023 254  63 1023       63   112392 83

Expert command (m for help): q