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haim

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Registered: 2011-08-17

Posts: 2

Error in partitioning

When I tried to install Arch on a hard disk with several partitions (Ubuntu, Windows) when I wanted to make partitions manually I received the following error:

archlinux fatak error: bad primary partition 3: partition ends in the final partial cylind

By searching on Google I found to delete all partitions and repartition, but it's something I really do not want to do, because that means installing two operating systems again, anyone know another solution?
Thanks

fdisk -l:

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 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: 0xeb68cddc



   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System

/dev/sda1   *           1          13      102400    7  HPFS/NTFS

Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.

/dev/sda2              13       10199    81817600    7  HPFS/NTFS

Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.

/dev/sda3           10199       20412    82030593    5  Extended

Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.

/dev/sda4           20412       60802   324433920    7  HPFS/NTFS

Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.

/dev/sda5           10199       10686     3905536   82  Linux swap / Solaris

/dev/sda6           10687       19710    72485248+  83  Linux

/dev/sda7           19711       20411     5630751   83  Linux

sfdisk -uS -l /dev/sda:

Disk /dev/sda: 60801 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track

Warning: extended partition does not start at a cylinder boundary.

DOS and Linux will interpret the contents differently.

Units = sectors of 512 bytes, counting from 0



   Device Boot    Start       End   #sectors  Id  System

/dev/sda1   *      2048    206847     204800   7  HPFS/NTFS

                start: (c,h,s) expected (0,32,33) found (0,107,16)

                end: (c,h,s) expected (12,223,19) found (48,134,14)

/dev/sda2        206848 163842047  163635200   7  HPFS/NTFS

                start: (c,h,s) expected (12,223,20) found (48,134,15)

                end: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,223,19)

/dev/sda3     163844094 327905279  164061186   5  Extended

                start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,223,19)

                end: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,223,19)

/dev/sda4     327905280 976773119  648867840   7  HPFS/NTFS

                start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,223,19)

                end: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,223,19)

/dev/sda5     163844096 171655167    7811072  82  Linux swap / Solaris

                start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,223,19)

                end: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,223,19)

/dev/sda6     171670653 316641149  144970497  83  Linux

                start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,223,19)

                end: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,223,19)

/dev/sda7     316641213 327902714   11261502  83  Linux

                start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,223,19)

                end: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,223,19)

Inxsible

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From: Chicago

Registered: 2008-06-09

Posts: 9,183

Re: Error in partitioning

Use a Gparted Live CD, and try to resize the partitions to correct the problem.

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haim

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Registered: 2011-08-17

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Re: Error in partitioning

OK, thanks, I will try this