Partitioning problem

[Nils Kassube]

Bob wrote:
> ** Reply to message from Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> on Sat, 07 Dec
> 2013 21:10:44 +0100
> > Bob wrote:
> > >    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> > > 
> > > /dev/sda1   *          63       16064        8001    a  OS/2 Boot
> > > Manager Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary.
> > > /dev/sda4           16065   703309823   351646879+   5  Extended
> > > Partition 4 does not start on physical sector boundary.
> > > /dev/sda5           16128    10265534     5124703+   7
> > > HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
> > >/dev/sda6        10265598    30748409    10241406
> > > b  W95 FAT32 Partition 6 does not start on physical sector
> > > boundary.
> > > /dev/sda7       781461504   976771071    97654784   83  Linux
> > > /dev/sda8       703324160   781449215    39062528   82  Linux swap
> > > / Solaris
> > > /dev/sda9       625184768   703309823    39062528   83 Linux

> > I think the end value of the extended partition should be the same
> > as
> > the end of sda9, i.e. the original value was correct. After all the
> > extended partition is a container for the logical partitions sda5 to
> > sda9. Now, if you want to change the size of the swap partition
> > which is between sda7 and sda9, you can only reduce the size which
> > may not be what you want to do. Otherwise you should first reduce
> > the size of (the end of) sda7 or (the beginning of) sda9. But if
> > you simply change the size of sda8 after you gave sda4 a wrong
> > value, you may overwrite some part of sda7 or sda9, depending in
> > which direction you increase the size of sda8.
> 
> Gparted will not show anything on the disk with the partition that I
> listed above.  After my change gparted worked properly.
> 
> Notice that fdisk lists the last three partitons out of order (that is
> the way they are chained).  The last partition on the disk is not
> sda9 but sda7.  So as I see it the end of sda4 should be equal to or
> higher than the end of sda7.

Ooops - I missed that sda7 is the last partition, sorry. Then your 
correction of the end value for sda4 was of course right.

And in my previous mail I forgot to answer your final question:

> Still have not found a way to search Ubuntu bug reports so I don't
> know if this is a known problem.

You can search for bug reports here: <https://bugs.launchpad.net/>


Nils