From: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
To: "Util-Linux" <util-linux@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: cfdisk will happily create a partition of size zero
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 10:58:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1422698319.1391339.221285309.35047434@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
Hi,
My disk is configured like this:
Disk: /dev/sda
Size: 149.1 GiB, 160041885696 bytes, 312581808 sectors
Label: dos, identifier: 0x5ef35ef3
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 2048 31262489 31260442 14.9G 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 * 31262490 62508914 31246425 14.9G 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 62508915 93755339 31246425 14.9G 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 93755401 312576704 218821304 104.4G 5 Extended
|-/dev/sda5 93755403 94767434 1012032 494.2M 82 Linux swap / Solari
|-/dev/sda6 94767498 252975554 158208057 75.5G 83 Linux
|-/dev/sda7 252975618 282776129 29800512 14.2G 83 Linux
`-/dev/sda8 282776193 312576704 29800512 14.2G 83 Linux
Free space 312578048 312581807 3760 1.9M
When I delete sda5 to sda8 and then sda4, and then recreate sda4,
and then in the free space create a partition of 1 sector, things
look like this:
/dev/sda4 93755392 312581807 218826416 104.4G 5 Extended
|-/dev/sda5 93757440 93757440 0 0B 83 Linux
`-Free space 93759488 312581807 218822320 104.4G
Strange. Start and end of sda5 are on the same sector?
Anyway, if I then in the free space try to create a partition of
say 123M, the response on the bottombar is (in red):
Start sector 93759488 out of range.
??
Benno
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2015-01-31 9:58 Benno Schulenberg [this message]
2015-02-05 19:59 ` cfdisk will happily create a partition of size zero Phillip Susi
2015-02-06 9:21 ` Karel Zak
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