On Thu, 05 Jul 2012 05:10:30 -0400, blind Pete <[email protected]> wrote:

Cfdisk is very unhappy about something.

    FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 3: Partition begins after end-of-disk
    Press any key to exit cfdisk

It looks like cfdisk's error message is wrong.  Partition 3 is mounted
and in use.

Disk /dev/sda: 121601 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Warning: extended partition does not start at a cylinder boundary.
DOS and Linux will interpret the contents differently.
Units = sectors of 512 bytes, counting from 0
121601x255x63=1953520065
   Device Boot    Start       End   #sectors  Id  System
/dev/sda1   *        63 577440359  577440297   5  Extended
/dev/sda2     577440360 1562899589  985459230  83  Linux
/dev/sda3     1562899590 1953520064  390620475  83  Linux
/dev/sda4     1953520065 1953523054       2990  83  Linux

What is in sda4?  It starts one sector past the end of the drive.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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