I just installed Linux Mint 9 KDE. During install I performed a simple manual partitioning: 4 GB swap, 15 GB /, 730 GB home. Then I run cfdisk to look at the partitions. cfdisk refuses to run. It says "FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 1: Partition ends in the final partial cylinder. Press any key to exit cfdisk."
I can run fdisk. Here is the output of fdisk command 'p':
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91201 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0008619a
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 498 3998720 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 499 91202 728572929 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 499 2322 14647296 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 2322 91202 713924608 83 Linux
It is disappointing that the installation created invalid partition. But reinstalling now would be very costly in terms of time. It is a live server. Should I be worried about this parition problem? Could the swap on sda1 overwrite the data on sda5 and trash the whole filesystem?
cfdisk: Partition ends in the final partial cylinder
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gnopak
cfdisk: Partition ends in the final partial cylinder
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piratesmack
Re: cfdisk: Partition ends in the final partial cylinder
Nah, nothing to worry about.
Your partition table looks fine.
Cfdisk is a very picky program that has strict requirements on the partition tables it accepts.
Just use fdisk or parted if you need to modify your partitions.
I get similar errors if I create any partitions from Windows 7.
Your partition table looks fine.
Cfdisk is a very picky program that has strict requirements on the partition tables it accepts.
Just use fdisk or parted if you need to modify your partitions.
I get similar errors if I create any partitions from Windows 7.
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gnopak
Re: cfdisk: Partition ends in the final partial cylinder
I was still worried, so I pressed "u" in fdisk to switch to cylinders mode. Here is the result:piratesmack wrote:Nah, nothing to worry about.
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 7999487 3998720 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 8001534 1465147391 728572929 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 8001536 37296127 14647296 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 37298176 1465147391 713924608 83 Linux
and a "v", partition verificatin command in fdisk printed:
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
Remaining 7917 unallocated 512-byte sectors
Does this look like there is no overlap, so partitions cannot overwrite each other?