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<H1>[Mageia-discuss] partitioning bug</H1>
<B>blind Pete</B>
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<I>Fri Jul 6 10:03:34 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>Morgan Leijström wrote:
><i> I have entered a couple partitioning bugs myself...
</I>><i> Not similar to this one though.
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I'm very good at breaking things in unusual ways. ;-)
><i> Important is to enter it in bugzilla at all, with as many details you can.
</I>><i> -And i see you have done a good job to start with :)
</I>
After we work out what the bug is, or bugs are.
><i> Someone can then fill in or edit package or whatever.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> It would also be interesting to know what other tools say.
</I>><i> gparted?
</I>
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.)
><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]#
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