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From: Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com>
To: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>,
	Util-Linux <util-linux@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: cfdisk will happily create a partition of size zero
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2015 14:59:42 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54D3CBAE.2000402@ubuntu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1422698319.1391339.221285309.35047434@webmail.messagingengine.com>

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On 1/31/2015 4:58 AM, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> /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?

Looks like there is also an off by one error in the size calculation
since a partition that starts and ends on the same sector does still
occupy that one sector, so its size can not be zero.


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  reply	other threads:[~2015-02-05 19:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-31  9:58 cfdisk will happily create a partition of size zero Benno Schulenberg
2015-02-05 19:59 ` Phillip Susi [this message]
2015-02-06  9:21   ` Karel Zak

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