[Mageia-discuss] partitioning bug

[David W. Hodgins]

On Thu, 05 Jul 2012 05:10:30 -0400, blind Pete <0123peter at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

> 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
121601x255x63=1953520065
>    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

What is in sda4?  It starts one sector past the end of the drive.

Regards, Dave Hodgins