Re: PartEd-Bug: Unable to align partition properly

[Martin Steigerwald]

Hello Andrew Clausen,

On 25-Jul-02  you wrote about "Re: PartEd-Bug: Unable to align partition 
properly":

>> (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.

Well I am back now... although I forgot much of the bug details. Do you have
an idea on what exactly I should do to help you to track down the problem?
apt-get update updated my partition version to 1.6.3 today however... but I
could still compile whatever release my bug report was related to.

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