I am having the same issue on a new install of Debian Wheezy. The disk
has been partitioned using the partitioning tool during the install.
yann-laptop# parted /dev/sda "unit B p"
Model: ATA WDC WD2500BEVT-8 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 250059350016B
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File
system Flags
1 1048576B 299892735B 298844160B primary ext3
boot
3 300940288B 70299680767B 69998740480B extended
6 300941312B 30300700671B 29999759360B logical btrfs
5 30300700672B 70299680767B 39998980096B logical
2 246058844160B 250059161599B 4000317440B primary
yann-laptop# parted /dev/sda "unit CHS p"
Model: ATA WDC WD2500BEVT-8 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 30401,80,62
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
BIOS cylinder,head,sector geometry: 30401,255,63. Each cylinder is
8225kB.
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Type File system Flags
1 0,32,32 36,117,16 primary ext3 boot
3 36,149,47 8546,199,36 extended
6 36,149,49 3683,216,52 logical btrfs
5 3683,216,53 8546,199,36 logical
2 29914,242,24 30401,75,9 primary
yann-laptop# cfdisk /dev/sda
FATAL ERROR: Bad logical partition 6: enlarged logical partitions
overlap
Press any key to exit cfdisk
I can't see any error in the table partition showed by parted, yet
cfdisk is complaining about partition 6.
Further investigating the issue, I noticed (using apt-file) that
/sbin/cfdisk is provided by two different packages that seem to be
overlapping: util-linux, which provides the tool available by default,
and gnu-cfdisk,that seems to be overwriting the existing /sbin/cfdisk
when installed (at least /sbin/cfdisk is not a symlink and there is no
such reference in /etc/alternatives).
Please note that the /sbin/cfdisk provided by gnu-cfdisk works fine in
my case.
Regards,
Yann
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