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   <H1>[Mageia-discuss] partitioning bug</H1>
    <B>blind Pete</B> 
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<PRE>andre999 wrote:

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&gt;<i> Just a wild guess, but maybe cfdisk is using base 0 in the error message ?
</I>&gt;<i> i.e., starting with &quot;partition 0&quot; for the first partition, and saying
</I>&gt;<i> &quot;partition 3&quot; for the 4th
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Looks like a good guess, but it indicates two bugs rather than one.  
First calculating the size as CxHxS rather than reading the LBA value, 
and second the error message having a numbering scheme from the 
main display.  

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blind Pete
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