RE: (Warning: Unable to align partition properly)

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Thanks Yury, very helpful.

-----Original Message-----
From: Yury Umanets [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 12:06 PM
To: address@hidden
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: (Warning: Unable to align partition properly)


address@hidden wrote:

>Hi everyone,
>I got the following when starting parted:
>[root /home]# parted
>GNU Parted 1.6.3
>Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License.
>
>This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
>ANY
>WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
>FOR A
>PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.
>
>Using /dev/hda
>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? ignore                                                     
>(parted) p                                                                
>Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-9541.546 megabytes
>Disk label type: msdos
>Minor    Start       End     Type      Filesystem  Flags
>1          0.000    750.093  primary   ext2        raid
>2        750.094    908.578  extended              
>5        750.094    780.117  logical               
>6        780.118    908.578  logical   linux-swap  raid
>3        908.578   1108.898  primary   ext2        raid
>4       1108.898   9541.546  primary   ext2        raid
>(parted)
>
>just in case this helps:
>[root /home]# fdisk /dev/hda -l
>
>Disk /dev/hda: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 19386 cylinders
>Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes
>
>   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
>/dev/hda1             1      1524    768095+  fd  Linux raid autodetect
>/dev/hda2          1525      1846    162288    5  Extended
>/dev/hda3          1847      2253    205128   fd  Linux raid autodetect
>/dev/hda4          2254     19386   8635032   fd  Linux raid autodetect
>/dev/hda5          1525      1585     30743+  83  Linux
>/dev/hda6          1586      1846    131543+  fd  Linux raid autodetect
>
>Can someone guide me on this?
>Thanks,
>Osmin.
>
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>
It is funy, but I don't understand for why someone still use fdisk if 
parted exists :)

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Yury Umanets