Re: Unable to align partition properly

[Andrew Clausen]

On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 09:36:38AM +0200, Gilles Foucault wrote:
> Ignorer Abandonner ? i
> Erreur: Unable to align partition.

It's not a very specific error message (a drawback of constraints...)

> So gnu parted is not able to do anything on my computer, and RedHat Linux 7.2
> is not installable too because diskdruid uses parted and does not work at 
> all...

:(

> It would be great that some developer solve the problem ...

Indeed.

> Here are some information (command output) about my hard drive /dev/hda :
> #  fdisk /dev/hda
> Disque /dev/hda : 255 têtes, 63 secteurs, 2495 cylindres
> Unités = cylindres sur 16065 * 512 octets
> 
> Périphérique Amorce    Début       Fin    Blocs   Id  Système
> /dev/hda1   *         1         9     72261   82  Echange Linux
> /dev/hda2            10      2421  19374390    5  Etendue
> /dev/hda5            10        12     24066   83  Linux
> /dev/hda6            13        76    514048+  83  Linux
> /dev/hda7            77       331   2048256   83  Linux
> /dev/hda8           332       459   1028128+  83  Linux
> /dev/hda9           460       464     40131   83  Linux
> /dev/hda10          465       497    265041   83  Linux
> /dev/hda11          498      2027  12289693+  83  Linux
> /dev/hda12         2028      2129    819283+  83  Linux
> /dev/hda13         2130      2162    265041   83  Linux
> /dev/hda14         2163      2193    248976   83  Linux
> /dev/hda15         2194      2195     16033+  82  Echange Linux
> /dev/hda16         2196      2360   1325331   83  Linux
> /dev/hda17         2361      2436    610438+  83  Linux

^^^ outside of extended partition

That's a *lot* of partitions!

Do you know how to use gdb?

Can you run:

        # gdb parted
        (gdb) set args /dev/hda
        (gdb) break exception_handler
        (gdb) run
        [maybe a few exceptions will occur, keep typing "cont", until the
        "Unable to align partition" one]
        (gdb) bt

And send in the output of the last command?  (you can type "quit" afterwards)

Thanks!
Andrew