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<H1>[Mageia-discuss] partitioning bug</H1>
<B>Pascal Terjan</B>
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<I>Wed Jul 18 03:09:45 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 8:37 AM, blind Pete <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">0123peter at gmail.com</A>> wrote:
><i> David W. Hodgins wrote:
</I>><i>
</I>>><i> On Thu, 05 Jul 2012 05:10:30 -0400, blind Pete
</I>>><i> <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">0123peter at gmail.com</A>> wrote:
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</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.
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</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> 121601x255x63=1953520065
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</I>><i> CHS has not been reliable since zones were introduced decades ago.
</I>><i> They are just a general hint that it is a big drive. LBA or
</I>><i> sector number is all that matters. What happens inside the HDD
</I>><i> case is an unknowable mystery.
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But cfdisk is still based on CHS (or was few years ago).
For example <A HREF="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=630340#c1">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=630340#c1</A> says
that 2.18 (the one in mageia 1) expected the size of the device to be
a multiple of the cylinder size.
><i> Even if partition four were past the end of the disk it would not
</I>><i> excuse cfdisk for complaining about partition three.
</I>
Yes I don't know why it complains about 3 and not 4
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