Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!unido!mikros!mwtech!martin From: martin@mwtech.UUCP (Martin Weitzel) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386 Subject: faulty disk partitioning in 386/ix Message-ID: <438@mwtech.UUCP> Date: 27 Oct 89 10:38:45 GMT Reply-To: martin@mwtech.UUCP (Martin Weitzel) Organization: MIKROS Systemware, Darmstadt/W-Germany Lines: 12 I have observed that under certain circumstances, there might be an overlap between two disk partitions (which means that writing to one files-system destroys the other and vice versa). The problem only occurs, if there is a further fdisk-partition *behind* the one, in which 386/ix is installed. Was the topic allready discussed here? (I'm new to news ...) Please *mail* me if you have observed similar problems or if you want me to supply more details. I'll sumarize.