I used fdisk -l
and saw this.
Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x580a1fd4
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 206847 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 206848 417083391 208438272 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 417095656 1953523711 768214028 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 417095658 1871315459 727109901 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
Partition 5 does not start on physical sector boundary.
/dev/sda6 1871316992 1900611583 14647296 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 1900613632 1908424703 3905536 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda8 1908426752 1953523711 22548480 83 Linux
This show that my logical partition sda5
ends at 1871315459
and sda6
begins at 1871316992
.
Then where did my 1533 sectors
ie 766 kb
go?
partition 1 does not end at a cylinder boundary
errors in many partitions. Can you elaborate on how to fix please? – To Do Jan 16 '13 at 17:51parted
-like utility and you're all set. – gertvdijk Jan 16 '13 at 17:55sudo sfdisk -lV /dev/sda
gives me these errors, on all partitions, even those I never even touched. – To Do Jan 16 '13 at 18:02parted
-based tools. It's even mentioned in its manpage ofsfdisk(8)
to useparted
-based tools as it doesn't understand newer stuff like GUID partition tables. And by the way, the does not end* at ...* is even less important to fix, as it's not misaligned (blocks are started at the start). – gertvdijk Jan 16 '13 at 18:04man parted
says it doesn't support ext3 partitions, let alone ext4 ones! Quite confusing stuff. – To Do Jan 16 '13 at 18:19