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   <H1>[Mageia-discuss] partitioning bug</H1>
    <B>David W. Hodgins</B> 
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    <I>Thu Jul  5 22:52:38 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>On Thu, 05 Jul 2012 05:10:30 -0400, blind Pete &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">0123peter at gmail.com</A>&gt; wrote:

&gt;<i> Cfdisk is very unhappy about something.
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</I>&gt;<i>     FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 3: Partition begins after end-of-disk
</I>&gt;<i>     Press any key to exit cfdisk
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</I>&gt;<i> It looks like cfdisk's error message is wrong.  Partition 3 is mounted
</I>&gt;<i> and in use.
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&gt;<i> Disk /dev/sda: 121601 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
</I>&gt;<i> Warning: extended partition does not start at a cylinder boundary.
</I>&gt;<i> DOS and Linux will interpret the contents differently.
</I>&gt;<i> Units = sectors of 512 bytes, counting from 0
</I>121601x255x63=1953520065
&gt;<i>    Device Boot    Start       End   #sectors  Id  System
</I>&gt;<i> /dev/sda1   *        63 577440359  577440297   5  Extended
</I>&gt;<i> /dev/sda2     577440360 1562899589  985459230  83  Linux
</I>&gt;<i> /dev/sda3     1562899590 1953520064  390620475  83  Linux
</I>&gt;<i> /dev/sda4     1953520065 1953523054       2990  83  Linux
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What is in sda4?  It starts one sector past the end of the drive.

Regards, Dave Hodgins
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