Re: Unable to align partition properly

[Andrew Clausen]

Morten Welinder wrote:
>            # dd if=/dev/hda1 bs=16k count=1 | gzip > ext2-start.gz
> 
> Attached below.

OK, the problem is that parted is simultaneously detecting
a FAT and ext2 file system on the partition.  (I've
figured out a good algorithm for resolving this conflict
nicely, but still haven't implemented it)

So, the workaround for now is:

        # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda1 bs=512 count=1

This zeroes out the first 512 bytes of the partition.  This
will nuke the FAT data, but ext2 starts 1024 bytes in ;-)

Thanks!
Andrew Clausen