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| author | Nicolas Vigier <boklm@mageia.org> | 2013-04-14 13:46:12 +0000 |
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diff --git a/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/2012-July/008142.html b/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/2012-July/008142.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..1ee72b5b6 --- /dev/null +++ b/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/2012-July/008142.html @@ -0,0 +1,115 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> +<HTML> + <HEAD> + <TITLE> [Mageia-discuss] partitioning bug + </TITLE> + <LINK REL="Index" HREF="index.html" > + <LINK REL="made" HREF="mailto:mageia-discuss%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-discuss%5D%20partitioning%20bug&In-Reply-To=%3C692gc9-7sf.ln1%40psd.motzarella.org%3E"> + <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,nofollow"> + <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> + <LINK REL="Previous" HREF="008141.html"> + <LINK REL="Next" HREF="008143.html"> + </HEAD> + <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> + <H1>[Mageia-discuss] partitioning bug</H1> + <B>blind Pete</B> + <A HREF="mailto:mageia-discuss%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-discuss%5D%20partitioning%20bug&In-Reply-To=%3C692gc9-7sf.ln1%40psd.motzarella.org%3E" + TITLE="[Mageia-discuss] partitioning bug">0123peter at gmail.com + </A><BR> + <I>Thu Jul 5 11:10:30 CEST 2012</I> + <P><UL> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="008141.html">[Mageia-discuss] "new look" of the wiki Mageia and "navigation bar" +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="008143.html">[Mageia-discuss] partitioning bug +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#8142">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#8142">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#8142">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#8142">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + <HR> +<!--beginarticle--> +<PRE>Cfdisk is very unhappy about something. + + FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 3: Partition begins after end-of-disk + Press any key to exit cfdisk + +It looks like cfdisk's error message is wrong. Partition 3 is mounted +and in use. + +Unfortunately I don't know which software to blame, but something has +made my hard drive "interesting". It could be; cfdisk itself, the +Mageia 2 installer (the main suspect), the Ubuntu installer, fdisk, +or sfdisk. There might be multiple bugs. + +I think that the order of events was; +I noticed a tiny amount of unused space at the end of my HDD +the perfect place for a LiLo map file. +Created a new primary partition (numbered 3, because 1, 2 and 4 existed). +"Fixed" the partition order with fdisk. +Found that the extended partition had grown to cover the whole disk. +Found that the third primary partition had been changed to logical. +(There were still two primary partitions in the middle of the disk.) +Found that sfdisk has decent man pages. +Fixed the problem. +Found that cfdisk is still not happy. + +Does anyone know what to raise that bug report against? + +[<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">root at live</A> bin]# cat /etc/release +Mageia release 1 (Official) for x86_64 +[<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">root at live</A> bin]# sfdisk -l -uS -L + +Disk /dev/sda: 121601 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track +Warning: extended partition does not start at a cylinder boundary. +DOS and Linux will interpret the contents differently. +Units = sectors of 512 bytes, counting from 0 + + Device Boot Start End #sectors Id System +/dev/sda1 * 63 577440359 577440297 5 Extended +/dev/sda2 577440360 1562899589 985459230 83 Linux +/dev/sda3 1562899590 1953520064 390620475 83 Linux +/dev/sda4 1953520065 1953523054 2990 83 Linux + start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (769,0,1) + end: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (769,47,29) +/dev/sda5 126 22507064 22506939 83 Linux +/dev/sda6 22507128 26587574 4080447 83 Linux +/dev/sda7 26587638 77786729 51199092 83 Linux +/dev/sda8 77786793 98253539 20466747 82 Linux swap / Solaris +/dev/sda9 98253603 122816924 24563322 83 Linux +/dev/sda10 122816988 126897434 4080447 83 Linux +/dev/sda11 126897498 167847119 40949622 83 Linux +/dev/sda12 167847183 577440359 409593177 83 Linux +[<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">root at live</A> bin]# + + +-- +blind Pete +Sig goes here... + +</PRE> + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="008141.html">[Mageia-discuss] "new look" of the wiki Mageia and "navigation bar" +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="008143.html">[Mageia-discuss] partitioning bug +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#8142">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#8142">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#8142">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#8142">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">More information about the Mageia-discuss +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |