[Mageia-discuss] partitioning bug
David W. Hodgins
davidwhodgins at gmail.com
Thu Jul 5 22:52:38 CEST 2012
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
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