fdisk shows overlapping partitions
- by Campa
At every boot to start Ubuntu, a partition gets re-mounted more than 1 times, sometimes causing very long boots. Example below:
> dmesg
...
[ 21.472020] EXT4-fs (sda5): re-mounted. Opts: errors=remount-ro
...
[ 42.021537] EXT4-fs (sda5): re-mounted. Opts: errors=remount-ro,commit=0
...
I suspect there is a problem of overlapping partitions here, regarding sda4 and sda5:
> sudo fdisk -l
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 63 610469 305203+ de Dell Utility
/dev/sda2 612352 32069631 15728640 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 * 32069632 238979788 103455078+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda4 238983166 625141759 193079297 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 238983168 612630527 186823680 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 612632576 625141759 6254592 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Further details:
> more /etc/fstab
...
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=b33be99b-5c9e-449e-ad48-be608aeff001 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda7 during installation
UUID=7c9071cc-b77b-40da-9f80-6b8a9a220cb1 none swap sw
and
> mount
/dev/sda5 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro,commit=0)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,size=10%,mode=0755)
none on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=5242880)
none on /run/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/piero/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=piero)
I am Running Ubuntu Oneiric + LXDE on
Dell Studio XPS machine 64-bit, dual booting with Windows 7.
A months ago, I resized the Ubuntu partition and maybe I messed up something by doing that.
Do you have any idea, why this long booting is happening?
