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As far as I can see, gparted agrees +with what I think things should look like. Gparted and +fdisk agree about the number of sectors. (More than you +get by multiplying CxHxS.) + +><i> Thanks +</I>><i> /Morgan +</I>><i> +</I>><i> torsdagen den 5 juli 2012 11.10.30 skrev blind Pete: +</I>>><i> Cfdisk is very unhappy about something. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 3: Partition begins after +</I>>><i> end-of-disk Press any key to exit cfdisk +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> It looks like cfdisk's error message is wrong. Partition 3 is mounted +</I>>><i> and in use. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> Unfortunately I don't know which software to blame, but something has +</I>>><i> made my hard drive "interesting". It could be; cfdisk itself, the +</I>>><i> Mageia 2 installer (the main suspect), the Ubuntu installer, fdisk, +</I>>><i> or sfdisk. There might be multiple bugs. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> I think that the order of events was; +</I>>><i> I noticed a tiny amount of unused space at the end of my HDD +</I>>><i> the perfect place for a LiLo map file. +</I>>><i> Created a new primary partition (numbered 3, because 1, 2 and 4 existed). +</I>>><i> "Fixed" the partition order with fdisk. +</I>>><i> Found that the extended partition had grown to cover the whole disk. +</I>>><i> Found that the third primary partition had been changed to logical. +</I>>><i> (There were still two primary partitions in the middle of the disk.) +</I>>><i> Found that sfdisk has decent man pages. +</I>>><i> Fixed the problem. +</I>>><i> Found that cfdisk is still not happy. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> Does anyone know what to raise that bug report against? +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> [<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">root at live</A> bin]# cat /etc/release +</I>>><i> Mageia release 1 (Official) for x86_64 +</I>>><i> [<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">root at live</A> bin]# sfdisk -l -uS -L +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> Disk /dev/sda: 121601 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track +</I>>><i> Warning: extended partition does not start at a cylinder boundary. +</I>>><i> DOS and Linux will interpret the contents differently. +</I>>><i> Units = sectors of 512 bytes, counting from 0 +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> Device Boot Start End #sectors Id System +</I>>><i> /dev/sda1 * 63 577440359 577440297 5 Extended +</I>>><i> /dev/sda2 577440360 1562899589 985459230 83 Linux +</I>>><i> /dev/sda3 1562899590 1953520064 390620475 83 Linux +</I>>><i> /dev/sda4 1953520065 1953523054 2990 83 Linux +</I>>><i> start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (769,0,1) +</I>>><i> end: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (769,47,29) +</I>>><i> /dev/sda5 126 22507064 22506939 83 Linux +</I>>><i> /dev/sda6 22507128 26587574 4080447 83 Linux +</I>>><i> /dev/sda7 26587638 77786729 51199092 83 Linux +</I>>><i> /dev/sda8 77786793 98253539 20466747 82 Linux swap / Solaris +</I>>><i> /dev/sda9 98253603 122816924 24563322 83 Linux +</I>>><i> /dev/sda10 122816988 126897434 4080447 83 Linux +</I>>><i> /dev/sda11 126897498 167847119 40949622 83 Linux +</I>>><i> /dev/sda12 167847183 577440359 409593177 83 Linux +</I>>><i> [<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">root at live</A> bin]# +</I>><i> +</I> + +</PRE> + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="008143.html">[Mageia-discuss] partitioning bug +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="008158.html">[Mageia-discuss] partitioning bug +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#8147">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#8147">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#8147">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#8147">[ 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> |