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nopriler

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Registered: 2011-01-27

Posts: 40

[Solved]Partition ends in the final partial cylinder

I am trying to install Arch linux on Virutualbox.
I use GParted LiveCD to resize my partition, when I run cfdisk I receive the following error:

FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 1: Partition ends in the final partial cylinder

The output of the fdisk -lu is:

root@debian:/mnt# fdisk -lu

Disk /dev/sda: 10.7 GB, 10737418240 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1305 cylinders, total 20971520 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0e770e76

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *          63    18876415     9438176+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2        18876416    20971519     1047552   83  Linux

The messages of GParted GUI

Partition Filesystem Size Used Unused Flags
/dev/sda1 ntfs 9.00 GiB 5.25 GiB 3.76 GiB boot
/dev/sda2 ext4 1023.00MiB 33.36 MiB 989.64 MiB

Any help?Thx.

Last edited by nopriler (2011-04-19 05:20:29)

shulamy

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From: israel

Registered: 2010-09-11

Posts: 454

Re: [Solved]Partition ends in the final partial cylinder

i think gparted have an option "round to cylinder"

or maybe you should use "align to -> cylinder"

ezik

nopriler

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Registered: 2011-01-27

Posts: 40

Re: [Solved]Partition ends in the final partial cylinder

shulamy, could you please tell me where the option "round to cylinder" or "align to -> cylinder" is? I can't find it. Thanks a lot.

shulamy

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From: israel

Registered: 2010-09-11

Posts: 454

Re: [Solved]Partition ends in the final partial cylinder

i can't find the fist one as well.

maybe i am mixed with another software.

the  "align to -> cylinder" is in patition -> new

at the bottom of the left raw.

ezik

nopriler

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Registered: 2011-01-27

Posts: 40

Re: [Solved]Partition ends in the final partial cylinder

shulamy, thank you very much. cfdisk works well!