I have partioned a disk using fdisk without the DOS Compatibility flag. fdisk -l /dev/sdd displays fdisk -l /dev/sdd Disk /dev/sdd: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders, total 625142448 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x41ffc810 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdd1 2048 314574847 157286400 83 Linux /dev/sdd2 314574848 625142447 155283800 83 Linux Invoking cfdisk for the same disk gives FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 1: Partition ends in the final partial cylind Press any key to exit cfdisk Reproducible: Always
Please post your `emerge --info' too. Also, is this a regression wrt the previous stable version of util-linux?
(In reply to comment #1) > Please post your `emerge --info' too. Also, is this a regression wrt the > previous stable version of util-linux? > I've never used the stable version. I've used cfdisk for the first time since a very long time. Furthermore I've repartitioned my hard disks with fdisk -c=nondos -u to be compatible with modern drivers using a larger sector size. emerge --info '=sys-apps/util-linux-2.18' Portage 2.2_rc67 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.4.4, glibc-2.11.2-r0, 2.6.34-ck-r1 x86_64) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.34-ck-r1-x86_64-AMD_Phenom-tm-_II_X4_940_Processor-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:15:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [disabled] app-shells/bash: 4.1_p7 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11 dev-lang/python: 2.6.5-r3, 3.1.2-r4 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.1-r2 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.6.1-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.65-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.6.3-r1, 1.8.5-r4, 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.4-r1, 4.5.0, 4.6.0_pre9999 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.10 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.34 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-mtune=native -O2 -msse3 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-mtune=native -O2 -msse3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests buildpkg distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo " LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en de" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/local/portage/layman/sunrise" SYNC="rsync://rsync.informatik.RWTH-Aachen.de/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext 3dnowprefetch X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 atm avahi berkdb branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri dts dvd dvdr emboss encode exif fam ffmpeg fftw firefox flac fortran fuse gdbm gfortran gif gimp gnome gpm gtk gtk2 hal iconv ipv6 jpeg kde lapack lcms libnotify mad mikmod mmx mmxext mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt qt3support qt4 readline reflection sdl session smp spell spl sqlite sqlite3 sse sse2 sse3 sse4a ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcl tcpd threads tiff tk truetype unicode usb vorbis x264 xcb xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev wacom" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en de" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeonhd" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS ================================================================= Package Settings ================================================================= sys-apps/util-linux-2.18 was built with the following: USE="crypt (multilib) nls perl unicode -loop-aes -old-linux (-selinux) -slang (-uclibc)"
> /dev/sdd1 2048 314574847 157286400 83 Linux > FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 1: Partition ends in the final partial AFAICT this is cfdisk's unability to cope with partition tables that are 1MiB-aligned, as that number does not fall on the cylinder boundary (56 sectors). I'm also seeing this problem with newer Linux installations.
