Re: parted error

[Andrew Clausen]

On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 07:29:33PM +0100, Pixel wrote:
> 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.

Parted should be able to handle this.  You can get more info
by setting a break point on the exception handler, and doing
a backtrace.

Cheers,
Andrew