[Mageia-discuss] partitioning bug

Thu Jul 5 11:10:30 CEST 2012

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?  
+
+[root at live bin]# cat /etc/release 
+Mageia release 1 (Official) for x86_64
+[root at live 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
+[root at live bin]#
+
+
+-- 
+blind Pete
+Sig goes here...  
+
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