[Mageia-discuss] partitioning bug

[blind Pete]

Morgan Leijström wrote:

> I have entered a couple partitioning bugs myself...
> Not similar to this one though.

I'm very good at breaking things in unusual ways.  ;-)  

> 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 :)

After we work out what the bug is, or bugs are.  

> Someone can then fill in or edit package or whatever.
> 
> It would also be interesting to know what other tools say.
> gparted?

Gparted looks pretty.  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.)  

> 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]#
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