Re: parted error

[Pixel]

Andrew Clausen <address@hidden> writes:

> On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 05:13:25PM +0100, H.G. Bekker wrote:
> [...]
> > Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4866 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
> > [...]
> > /dev/hda2           395      4866  35921340    f  Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
> > [...]
> > /dev/hda9          3542      4867  10645782   83  Linux
> 
> Your partition table is dodgey... there is no bug in Parted.
> (That said, it would be nice if Parted could recover from this
> gracefully)
> 
> Partition 9 ends outside of the extended partition.

this is not so. fdisk says so, but it is wrong.

I asked H.G. for more info, and here is the result
(displayed in cylinders to ease comparison with fdisk)

- partitions
       0.003922 ->  394.000000
     394.003922 ->  893.000000
     893.003922 -> 2933.000000
    2933.003922 -> 3510.000000
    3510.003922 -> 3541.000000
    3541.003922 -> 4866.342484
- the extended  
     394.000000 -> 4866.342484

So the problem comes from diskdrake trying to use the full size of
harddrive [1], but hda9 is clearly not outside of the extended
partition.

PS: H.G, if you manage to resize using diskdrake, this incompatibility
should disappear :)


[1] only in mdk 8.2, it doesn't try anymore in later version.