Bug#269036: Sarge: debian-installer partitioning failure
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 08:43:35PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Thursday 02 December 2004 15:28, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> > Notice that hda7 and hda8 start before the end of hda6. This partition
> > table is broken (some partitioning tools are making such partition
> > tables) and in order to be safe the partitioning program of the
> > installer refuses to work with it. If you remove hda7 and hda8 the
> > problem (I hope) will disappear.
>
> Well....
> Actually, partman does just that itself if you for instance delete a large
> partition that's not on the end of the disk and create one or two new
> partitions in it's place.
Hm, I wasn't clear enough. The problem is not that the partitions are
not numbered acording to their disk order.
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 2349 17758408+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 4695 5168 3583440 41 PPC PReP Boot
/dev/hda3 2350 3321 7348320 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda4 3738 4694 7234920 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 3738 3805 514048+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda6 3806 4694 6720808+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 3738 3738 30+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda8 3806 3806 31 83 Linux
Notice that hda7 is inside hda5 and hda8 is inside hda6. The start and
the end here are measured in cylinders, so although I can not be sure, I
suppose that hda7 and hda8 lay in the first track of the first cylinder
of hda5 and hda6. Parted is not happy with such partitions so it is
possible that this bug is the same as #242114, #258880, #263208 and
#268580.
Now I remember that parted allows creation of partitions in this
forbiden area but partman has internal protection against this. I
suppose that the partitioning tools of Mandrake and SuSE do not have
such a protection.
Anton Zinoviev
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