I found that it is possible to resolve all non-alignment issues by resizing the problem partitions a bit with gparted, using a live-cd. The only partition where gparted fails to do this, is the FAT16 Dell diagnostics partition. Gparted ends with a numerical error on this (Which have not noted down and the problem machine is no longer with me).
Nevertheless, I am convinced this is a bug in the Ubuntu installer system, since I have let the ubuntu installer do the automagic find space and resize partitions himself without any manual interaction. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-disk-utility in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1034609 Title: Palimpsest warns about misalignment of extended partition Status in “gnome-disk-utility” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: On a drive that requires 64-byte alignment, palimpsest complains if an extended partition is misaligned, suggesting repartitioning. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this irrelevant with an extended partition, only mattering with physical and logical partitions? The warning certainly looks alarming. It definitely looks like I should be fixing things as a matter of urgency! Unless I'm wrong in my understanding that this is harmless, the warning should be removed in such cases. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-disk-utility/+bug/1034609/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
