On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Petr Uzel <petr.uzel@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 11:44:25AM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: >> Hi, >> I hit this issue when I wanted to resize a partition. >> >> I wanted to resize a partition, so I deleted it and recreated it (is >> there no better way?). > > You can use parted to resize a partition. Why do I need yet another tool for such a simple operation? >> After this, the system no longer booted... >> >> Turns out the old partition started at sector 63 and the new partition >> can't start before sector 2048. >> >> Could this be improved? >> >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=613592 > > Try to start fdisk with "-c=dos". Ah. Actually, that's the default, but I had no idea what that compatibility mode affected. Speaking of that warning: Could you change the defaults so this warning is no longer necessary? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=613591 Olaf -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
