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Re: parted bootdisk 1.2.12, mkpart and logical partition table
From: |
Andrew Clausen |
Subject: |
Re: parted bootdisk 1.2.12, mkpart and logical partition table |
Date: |
Thu, 23 Nov 2000 03:31:30 +1100 |
Fabio wrote:
>
> Dear Parted's team,
> I don't know if it is a bug or a no implementation (partition not
> aligned to cylinder boundaries), but note the problem at hda5. (in
> particular where i have signed with ****)
> I have used parted bootdisk 1.2.12.
>
> - Stage 0: before
> with sfdisk -l -x /dev/hda
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 1869 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
> Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from
> 0
>
> Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 0+ 1516 1517- 12185271 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
> /dev/hda2 1517 1804 288 2313360 85 Estesa linux
> /dev/hda3 1805 1868 64 514080 eb BeOS fs
> /dev/hda4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
>
> /dev/hda5 1517+ 1528 12- 96358+ 83 Linux
> - 1529 1788 260 2088450 5 Estesa
> - 1517 1516 0 0 0 Empty
> - 1517 1516 0 0 0 Empty
>
> /dev/hda6 1529+ 1788 260- 2088418+ 83 Linux
> - 1789 1804 16 128520 5 Estesa
> - 1529 1528 0 0 0 Empty
> - 1529 1528 0 0 0 Empty
>
> /dev/hda7 1789+ 1804 16- 128488+ 83 Linux
> - 1789 1788 0 0 0 Empty
> - 1789 1788 0 0 0 Empty
> - 1789 1788 0 0 0 Empty
>
> or, with print in Parted:
>
> Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags
> 1 0.0 11899.7 primary FAT boot
> 2 11899.7 14158.8 extended
> 5 11899.7 11993.8 logical ext2
> 6 11993.9 14033.3 logical ext2
> 7 14033.4 14158.8 logical linux-swap
> 3 14158.9 14660.9 primary
>
> - Stage 1: what i have do
>
> parted /dev/hda
> rm 5
> mkpart logical ext2 11899.7 11993.8
> ( ....
> 7 11899.8 11993.8 logical *******
> .... )
> rm 5
> mkpart logical ext2 11993.9 14033.3
> rm 5
> mkpart logical ext2 14033.4 14158.8
>
> - Stage 2: after
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 1869 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
> Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from
> 0
>
> Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 0+ 1516 1517- 12185271 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
> /dev/hda2 1517 1804 288 2313360 85 Estesa linux
> /dev/hda3 1805 1868 64 514080 eb BeOS fs
> /dev/hda4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
>
> /dev/hda5 1517+ 1528 12- 96327 83 Linux ******
> - 1529 1804 276 2216970 5 Estesa ******
> - 1517 1516 0 0 0 Empty
> - 1517 1516 0 0 0 Empty
>
> /dev/hda6 1529+ 1788 260- 2088418+ 83 Linux
> - 1789 1804 16 128520 5 Estesa
> - 1529 1528 0 0 0 Empty
> - 1529 1528 0 0 0 Empty
>
> /dev/hda7 1789+ 1804 16- 128488+ 82 Linux swap
> - 1789 1788 0 0 0 Empty
> - 1789 1788 0 0 0 Empty
> - 1789 1788 0 0 0 Empty
>
> Now it's all ok in my hard disk: i have used fdisk d and n.
> Sorry for my english.
> Goodbye.
> Fabio Ballari.
This is weird! Unfortunately, sfdisk isn't saying much - it
isn't giving the start of the partition blocks (only cylinders).
Can you run sfdisk, like this:
# sfdisk -g -uS -l -x /dev/hda
Thanks!
Andrew Clausen