These bugs are IMHO related, if not suggesting the same root cause:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-disk-utility/+bug/742123
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/parted/+bug/742164
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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
for FAT16 resize I get this error in gparted= Filesystem doesn't have
the expected sizes for Windows to like it. Cluster size is 2k( 1k
expected); number of clusters is 20017 (39957 expected); size of FATs is
79 sectors(157 expected).
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Status: New = Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1034609
Title:
Palimpsest warns about misalignment of extended partition
To
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WARNING: The partition is misaligned by bytes. This may result in
very poor performance. Repartitioning is suggested.
On a 1TB SATA disk I used gparted to set up the following
Partition
100GB NTFS
70TB Ext3
2TB swap
828GB extended
Used Disk
