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Parted hates my partition table, can't update to Fedora Core
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William Studenmund |
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Parted hates my partition table, can't update to Fedora Core |
Date: |
Tue, 29 Jun 2004 16:45:30 -0700 |
In the process of updating a RedHat 7.3 system to Fedora Core, I
discovered that parted doesn't like my partition table, and so I can't
update. The machine triple boots Linux, NetBSD, and Windows, so wiping
the partition table isn't an option.
Also unfortunately, parted's error message is not illuminating. It
complains, "Error: Unable to satisfy all constraints on the partition."
It neither tells me what constraints are at issue, nor how it can't
satisfy them. Even when I ask it to just print a partition, it gives
that error complaint. "help" is the only parted command I've found that
doesn't report an error, though I didn't try all the command options.
;-)
The partition table was worked on by both the NetBSD and Windows
partitioning tools, then I used Disk Druid under RedHat 7.3 to finish
partitioning. Linux's main file system is in the primary partition
table, and its swap and var (and since this is a Dell, the Dell startup
partition) are in extended partitions. For some reason, Disk Druid made
one extended partition, then sub-partitions which were also extended,
then put these last three partitions in there.
I do know that the NetBSD partition doesn't end on a cylinder boundary,
but I really don't care.
I'd appreciate any help in getting this working.
As per the documentation, I'm appending the output of fdisk /dev/hda
-l, interactively using fdisk to get the partition and expert partition
tables, and a hand-copy of parted's output.
Thanks!
Take care,
Bill
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