[Mageia-discuss] partitioning bug

[blind Pete]

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.  

Unfortunately I don't know which software to blame, but something has 
made my hard drive "interesting".  It could be; cfdisk itself, the 
Mageia 2 installer (the main suspect), the Ubuntu installer, fdisk, 
or sfdisk.  There might be multiple bugs.  

I think that the order of events was; 
I noticed a tiny amount of unused space at the end of my HDD 
the perfect place for a LiLo map file.  
Created a new primary partition (numbered 3, because 1, 2 and 4 existed).  
"Fixed" the partition order with fdisk.  
Found that the extended partition had grown to cover the whole disk. 
Found that the third primary partition had been changed to logical.  
(There were still two primary partitions in the middle of the disk.)  
Found that sfdisk has decent man pages.  
Fixed the problem.  
Found that cfdisk is still not happy.  

Does anyone know what to raise that bug report against?  

[root at live bin]# cat /etc/release 
Mageia release 1 (Official) for x86_64
[root at live bin]# sfdisk -l -uS -L

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

   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
                start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (769,0,1)
                end: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (769,47,29)
/dev/sda5           126  22507064   22506939  83  Linux
/dev/sda6      22507128  26587574    4080447  83  Linux
/dev/sda7      26587638  77786729   51199092  83  Linux
/dev/sda8      77786793  98253539   20466747  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda9      98253603 122816924   24563322  83  Linux
/dev/sda10    122816988 126897434    4080447  83  Linux
/dev/sda11    126897498 167847119   40949622  83  Linux
/dev/sda12    167847183 577440359  409593177  83  Linux
[root at live bin]#


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blind Pete
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