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Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.



cfdisk
FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 2: Partition ends in the final partial cylind
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fdisk /dev/sda -l

Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xbf5fbf5f

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        3825    30720000    7  HPFS/NTFS
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2            3825       36988   266378209    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda3           36988       38914    15471960   12  Compaq diagnostics
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda5            3825       20397   133117847    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6           20398       36308   127804416   83  Linux
/dev/sda7           36309       36988     5454848   82  Linux swap / Solaris

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I don't know what does the error means. And I wander how to solve it.
THX

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