Re: 1.Thanks, 2.Bug(?)

[Wlodek Drabent]

>  I can't think of an example where a typo would do something BAD.
>  Can you?

Just typing a wrong partition number.

In my case - unsuccessful attempts to extend the last partition - a
message like I suggested would tell me in advance that nothing bigger
is going to be generated.  
Such a message would tell how the numbers are interpreted before
making actual changes.
Fdisk/cfdisk and other tools give the user such oportunity; the
results of required changes are / can be displayed before commencing
to do them

>  > BUT fdisk said:
>  >    Partition 6: previous sectors 3330493 disagrees with total 3338240
>  > 
>  > [I found fdisk/cfdisk listings of this situation, enclosed below.]
>  Thanks, I had a look, and it looks like fdisk/cfdisk brokenness.

They are from  util-linux-2.9w-24  from redhat 6.1,  redhat made no
error announcements about them.

>  Parted will only do this if it can't figure out the disk geometry...
>  did it give you a warning about this?  (BTW: all partitioning
>  programs do something like this)

1. fdisk/cfdisk made no warnings

2. Parted says:
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Warning: Unable to align partition properly.  This probably means that another
partitioning tool generated an incorrect partition table, because it didn't have
the correct BIOS geometry.  It is safe to ignore,but ignoring may cause
(fixable) problems with some boot loaders.
Ignore Cancel ? 
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3. /proc/ide/hda/geometry   is
    physical     7944/16/63
    logical      993/128/63

regards
--Wlodek

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