Description of problem: It is not certain what caused my hard disk to have such an "interesting" partition table, but cfdisk can not handle it now, and it appears to be valid. FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 3: Partition begins after end-of-disk Press any key to exit cfdisk It looks like cfdisk's error message is wrong. Partition 3 is mounted and in use. [root@live bin]# cat /etc/release Mageia release 1 (Official) for x86_64 [root@live bin]# sfdisk -l -uS -L Disk /dev/sda: 121601 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 * 63 577440359 577440297 5 Extended /dev/sda2 577440360 1562899589 985459230 83 Linux /dev/sda3 1562899590 1953520064 390620475 83 Linux /dev/sda4 1953520065 1953523054 2990 83 Linux start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (769,0,1) end: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (769,47,29) /dev/sda5 126 22507064 22506939 83 Linux /dev/sda6 22507128 26587574 4080447 83 Linux /dev/sda7 26587638 77786729 51199092 83 Linux /dev/sda8 77786793 98253539 20466747 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda9 98253603 122816924 24563322 83 Linux /dev/sda10 122816988 126897434 4080447 83 Linux /dev/sda11 126897498 167847119 40949622 83 Linux /dev/sda12 167847183 577440359 409593177 83 Linux [root@live bin]# This is from the thread "partitioning bug" in mageia user. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Mageia 1 How reproducible: It seems to be here to stay. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Long and complicated, see mailing list. 2. 3.
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Status: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => WONTFIX