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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next prev parent 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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