Parted 1.6.23 - problem with resizing of the extended parition

[Vlado Potisk]

Hello !

I'm unable to resize the extended partition on my disk. I cannot
even "resize" it to the current size, I'm always getting the
error message quoted below.

There is something non-standard in my setup, the 40GB disk
is set to 32GB with jumpers on the drive, because the BIOS
is rather old. I have noticed that fdisk has no problem to
create a new primary partition on the extra space so I thought
I could expand the existing hda8 filesystem and wanted
to expand the extended partition first.

Any help would be appreciated.

Best regards,

        Vlado


kernel: hda: Host Protected Area detected.
kernel:  current capacity is 66055248 sectors (33820 MB)
kernel:  native  capacity is 78165360 sectors (40020 MB)

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Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0s - 78165359s
Disk label type: msdos
Number  Start   End     Size    Type      File system  Flags
1       63s     7807589s 7807527s primary   ext3         boot
2       7807590s 8305604s 498015s primary   linux-swap   
4       8305605s 66043214s 57737610s extended               
5       8305668s 10410119s 2104452s logical   ext3         
6       10410183s 12514634s 2104452s logical   ext3         
7       12514698s 22474934s 9960237s logical   ext3         
8       22474998s 66043214s 43568217s logical   ext3         
(parted) resize 4 8305605s 78165359s
Error: Can't have a partition outside the disk!                           
Error: Unable to satisfy all constraints on the partition.                
You found a bug in GNU Parted.  Please email a bug report to 
address@hidden containing the version (1.6.23), and the following 
message:

Assertion (geom != NULL) at geom.c:100 in function ped_geometry_destroy() 
failed.
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