Re: parted bootdisk 1.2.12, mkpart and logical partition table

[Andrew Clausen]

Fabio wrote:
> 
> Dear Parted's team,
> I don't know if it is a bug or a no implementation (partition not
> aligned to cylinder boundaries), but note the problem at hda5. (in
> particular where i have signed with ****)
> I have used parted bootdisk 1.2.12.
> 
> - Stage 0: before
> with sfdisk -l -x /dev/hda
> 
> Disk /dev/hda: 1869 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
> Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from
> 0
> 
>    Device Boot Start     End   #cyls   #blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1   *      0+   1516    1517- 12185271    c  Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
> /dev/hda2       1517    1804     288   2313360   85  Estesa linux
> /dev/hda3       1805    1868      64    514080   eb  BeOS fs
> /dev/hda4          0       -       0         0    0  Empty
> 
> /dev/hda5       1517+   1528      12-    96358+  83  Linux
>     -           1529    1788     260   2088450    5  Estesa
>     -           1517    1516       0         0    0  Empty
>     -           1517    1516       0         0    0  Empty
> 
> /dev/hda6       1529+   1788     260-  2088418+  83  Linux
>     -           1789    1804      16    128520    5  Estesa
>     -           1529    1528       0         0    0  Empty
>     -           1529    1528       0         0    0  Empty
> 
> /dev/hda7       1789+   1804      16-   128488+  83  Linux
>     -           1789    1788       0         0    0  Empty
>     -           1789    1788       0         0    0  Empty
>     -           1789    1788       0         0    0  Empty
> 
> or, with print in Parted:
> 
> Minor  Start     End      Type      Filesystem   Flags
>   1    0.0       11899.7  primary   FAT          boot
>   2    11899.7   14158.8  extended
>   5    11899.7   11993.8  logical   ext2
>   6    11993.9   14033.3  logical   ext2
>   7    14033.4   14158.8  logical   linux-swap
>   3    14158.9   14660.9  primary
> 
> - Stage 1: what i have do
> 
> parted /dev/hda
> rm 5
> mkpart logical ext2 11899.7 11993.8
> ( ....
>   7    11899.8   11993.8  logical                             *******
>   ....                               )
> rm 5
> mkpart logical ext2 11993.9 14033.3
> rm 5
> mkpart logical ext2 14033.4 14158.8
> 
> - Stage 2: after
> 
> Disk /dev/hda: 1869 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
> Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from
> 0
> 
>    Device Boot Start     End   #cyls   #blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1   *      0+   1516    1517- 12185271    c  Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
> /dev/hda2       1517    1804     288   2313360   85  Estesa linux
> /dev/hda3       1805    1868      64    514080   eb  BeOS fs
> /dev/hda4          0       -       0         0    0  Empty
> 
> /dev/hda5       1517+   1528      12-    96327   83  Linux   ******
>     -           1529    1804     276   2216970    5  Estesa  ******
>     -           1517    1516       0         0    0  Empty
>     -           1517    1516       0         0    0  Empty
> 
> /dev/hda6       1529+   1788     260-  2088418+  83  Linux
>     -           1789    1804      16    128520    5  Estesa
>     -           1529    1528       0         0    0  Empty
>     -           1529    1528       0         0    0  Empty
> 
> /dev/hda7       1789+   1804      16-   128488+  82  Linux swap
>     -           1789    1788       0         0    0  Empty
>     -           1789    1788       0         0    0  Empty
>     -           1789    1788       0         0    0  Empty
> 
> Now it's all ok in my hard disk: i have used fdisk d and n.
> Sorry for my english.
> Goodbye.
> Fabio Ballari.

This is weird!  Unfortunately, sfdisk isn't saying much - it
isn't giving the start of the partition blocks (only cylinders).

Can you run sfdisk, like this:

        # sfdisk -g -uS -l -x /dev/hda

Thanks!
Andrew Clausen