PartEd-Bug: Unable to align partition properly

[Martin Steigerwald]

Hello again,

I now tried to create a Linux partition behind the FAT16 partition that I 
reduced in size and converted to FAT32 (see my previous mail)... and it 
doesn't work out... I first tried ext3, but it does not seem to be supported, 
and then reisferfs and got the error messages you see below. The partition in 
the end could not be created. 

I try with cfdisk now. Its strange, I never used something else than cfdisk 
or parted on the disk and it still tells me something about an incorrect 
partition table. Could you enlighten me on this?

Note: I am in holidays from 26 July to 19. August as noted in my previous 
email.

sunfire:~# parted
GNU Parted 1.6.2
Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT 
ANY
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR 
A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.

Using /dev/hda
Information: The operating system thinks the geometry on /dev/hda is
4866/255/63.  Therefore, cylinder 1024 ends at 8032.499M.
[...]
(parted) print
Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-38172.750 megabytes
Disk label type: msdos
Minor    Start       End     Type      Filesystem  Flags
1          0.031   4769.296  primary   fat32       lba
2       4769.297   9538.593  primary               boot
4       9538.594   9585.659  primary   fat16       lba
3       9585.659  38170.063  extended
5       9585.690  14354.956  logical   reiserfs
6      14354.987  19124.252  logical   ext3
7      19124.284  20081.250  logical   linux-swap
8      20081.281  34389.140  logical
9      34389.171  35503.022  logical   fat32       lba
(parted) mkpartfs logical ext3 35503 38172
No Implementation: Support for creating ext3 file systems is not implemented
yet.
(parted) mkpartfs logical reiserfs 35503 38172
Warning: Unable to align partition properly.  This probably means that another
partitioning tool generated an incorrect partition table, because it didn't 
have
the correct BIOS geometry.  It is safe to ignore,but ignoring may cause
(fixable) problems with some boot loaders.
Ignore/Cancel? i
Error: Unable to satisfy all constraints on the partition.
(parted) print
Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-38172.750 megabytes
Disk label type: msdos
Minor    Start       End     Type      Filesystem  Flags
1          0.031   4769.296  primary   fat32       lba
2       4769.297   9538.593  primary               boot
4       9538.594   9585.659  primary   fat16       lba
3       9585.659  38170.063  extended
5       9585.690  14354.956  logical   reiserfs
6      14354.987  19124.252  logical   ext3
7      19124.284  20081.250  logical   linux-swap
8      20081.281  34389.140  logical
9      34389.171  35503.022  logical   fat32       lba
(parted)