Re: PartEd-Bug: Unable to align partition properly

[Andrew Clausen]

Hi,

On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 12:06:02PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> 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?

I don't think this is the problem, because the complaint would have
also occured during "print".

> (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.

This is very strange.  I wonder why the constraints are so strict.
It might be an out-by-one type bug... try creating the partition from
35504 instead of 33503.  Anyway, you can get the constraints by
playing with gdb... when you get back, I'd appreciate it.
I'll explain how to do it then.

Cheers,
Andrew