Bug 493773 - Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary
Summary: Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 491748
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: rawhide
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-04-03 02:20 UTC by Pat Kane
Modified: 2009-04-07 13:48 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2009-04-07 13:48:48 UTC
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dmesg output from Dell box after F11Beta install (30.44 KB, text/plain)
2009-04-03 02:20 UTC, Pat Kane
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Description Pat Kane 2009-04-03 02:20:44 UTC
Created attachment 337967 [details]
dmesg output from Dell box after F11Beta install

Description of problem:
After a fresh install of F11Beta on /dev/sda
fdisk give me the warning message:
  "Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary."

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:


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Expected results:


Additional info:

  $ df
  Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
  /dev/mapper/vg_qed-lv_root
                       151593140   4479360 139413300   4% /
  /dev/sda1               198337     13761    174336   8% /boot
  tmpfs                   504576       732    503844   1% /dev/shm

  $ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda

  Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160000000000 bytes
  255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19452 cylinders
  Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
  Disk identifier: 0x4e114e11

     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
  /dev/sda1   *           1          26      204800   83  Linux
  Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
  /dev/sda2              26       19452   156043358+  8e  Linux LVM

Comment 1 Phil Knirsch 2009-04-06 11:00:48 UTC
Reassigning to anaconda as this seems to be a partitioning issue with a fresh install.

Thanks & regards, Phil

Comment 2 Chris Lumens 2009-04-06 14:43:05 UTC
Does this actually cause you any problems, or does it just look like a bad message to be seeing?

Comment 3 Pat Kane 2009-04-06 16:25:13 UTC
I am not aware of any problems that it is causing, yes, I am worried about the message.

Maybe I should fill up my /boot and see it there is any damage done to my Linux LVM?
I'll poke around with dd and see if the partions really do overlap...

Comment 4 Pat Kane 2009-04-07 03:13:02 UTC
I did the following "dd" experiments and do not think this bug is 
causing any real problems other than the warning message:

  -  did a "dd" to record the last sector of /dev/sda1 
     and the first sector of /dev/sda2.
 
  - cd /boot and filled up the partition with
    "yes > o"

  - checked that the first sector of /dev/sda2 did
    not get trashed, it did not.

I think it is okay to give this bug a very low priority/severity.

Pat
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Comment 5 Chris Lumens 2009-04-07 13:48:48 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 491748 ***


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