[Mageia-discuss] partitioning bug

Thu Jul 5 12:22:44 CEST 2012

I have entered a couple partitioning bugs myself...
+Not similar to this one though.
+
+Important is to enter it in bugzilla at all, with as many details you can.
+-And i see you have done a good job to start with :)
+
+Someone can then fill in or edit package or whatever.
+
+It would also be interesting to know what other tools say.
+gparted?
+
+Thanks
+/Morgan
+
+torsdagen den 5 juli 2012 11.10.30 skrev  blind Pete:
+> 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]#
+
+-- 
+Morgan Leijström
+