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Re: 1.Thanks, 2.Bug(?)
From: |
Wlodek Drabent |
Subject: |
Re: 1.Thanks, 2.Bug(?) |
Date: |
Sat, 16 Feb 2002 15:20:36 +0100 |
Hello
It seems that my disk could be an interesting case to you. But now
partitioning is done, and the disk is back in work, I am hurrying up
to "repair" my delays due to time spent at repartitioning :) So I
cannot do any risky things with the disk.
And of course when one has troubles one is not careful enough to make
detailed notes :)
> > 2. Parted says:
> > ................
> > Warning: Unable to align partition properly. This probably means that
> another
> > partitioning tool generated an incorrect partition table, because it
> didn't have
> > the correct BIOS geometry. It is safe to ignore,but ignoring may cause
> > (fixable) problems with some boot loaders.
> > Ignore Cancel ?
> I find this all really hard to believe... the same
> function that is failing ("unable to align") was the
> function that aligned the partition in the first place.
> (this is equivalent to saying 1 != 1)
It seems to me that the message was there every time parted started.
At least it was there often. (And I made several tries).
Each time I answered Ignore and parted worked.
> Perhaps your commercial program screwed it up?
> I'm confused.
> > 3. /proc/ide/hda/geometry is
> > physical 7944/16/63
> > logical 993/128/63
> This is very strange.
According to my old fdisk printout, it has always been 993/128/63,
since I got the computer (with NT and redhat linux).
NT program INSPECT - Version PC10.27A says 992 128 63, which
seems to be the same.
The setup of the computer says 7942 (!) cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors/track.
The last things I have done with the disk were:
- Making partition 6 smaller (with parted I suppose) , to get out of
overlapping.
- Enlarging partition 6 (with partition magic?) to use all the space.
- Enlarging partition 8 with partition magic to include the last cylinder.
For the last step I made some unsuccessful attempts with p.m. and
parted until I found that that p.m. needs the partition to have a label.
Some details about the current state of the disk follow. Maybe they
may be of some use for you.
best regards
--W.
................
cfdisk 2.9w
Disk Drive: /dev/hda
Size: 4099866624 bytes
Heads: 128 Sectors per Track: 63 Cylinders: 993
Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Label] Size (MB)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
hda3 Primary Compaq diagnostics 16.52
hda1 Primary NTFS 912.46
hda5 Logical Linux ext2 644.09
hda6 NC Logical Linux swap 132.13
hda7 Logical Linux ext2 1676.28
hda8 Logical FAT16 [OSTATNI] 718.41
................
address@hidden parted
GNU Parted 1.4.23
Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
Using /dev/hda
Warning: Unable to align partition properly. This probably means that another
partitioning tool generated an incorrect partition table, because it didn't have
the correct BIOS geometry. It is safe to ignore,but ignoring may cause
(fixable) problems with some boot loaders.
Ignore Cancel ? i
(parted) q
address@hidden fdisk /dev/hda
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/hda: 128 heads, 63 sectors, 993 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8064 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 5 225 891072 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 * 226 993 3096576 5 Extended
/dev/hda3 1 4 16096+ 12 Compaq diagnostics
/dev/hda5 226 381 628960+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 382 413 129023+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda7 414 819 1636960+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda8 820 993 701536+ 6 FAT16
Command (m for help): x
Expert command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/hda: 128 heads, 63 sectors, 993 cylinders
Nr AF Hd Sec Cyl Hd Sec Cyl Start Size ID
1 00 0 1 4 127 63 224 32256 1782144 07
2 80 0 1 225 127 63 992 1814400 6193152 05
3 00 1 1 0 127 63 3 63 32193 12
4 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
5 00 1 1 225 127 63 380 63 1257921 83
6 00 0 2 381 127 63 412 1 258047 82
7 00 1 1 413 127 63 818 63 3273921 83
8 00 1 1 819 127 63 992 63 1403073 06
Expert command (m for help): q
address@hidden fdisk /dev/hda
Command (m for help): v
248 unallocated sectors
Command (m for help): q
address@hidden
- 1.Thanks, 2.Bug(?), Wlodek Drabent, 2002/02/12
- Re: 1.Thanks, 2.Bug(?), Andrew Clausen, 2002/02/13
- Re: 1.Thanks, 2.Bug(?), Wlodek Drabent, 2002/02/13
- Re: 1.Thanks, 2.Bug(?), Andrew Clausen, 2002/02/14
- Re: 1.Thanks, 2.Bug(?), Wlodek Drabent, 2002/02/14
- Re: 1.Thanks, 2.Bug(?), Andrew Clausen, 2002/02/14
- Re: 1.Thanks, 2.Bug(?),
Wlodek Drabent <=