On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 02:32:23PM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > 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 And could you update? .. the current upstream release is 2.19, you're reporting problems with v2.17... Karel -- Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> http://karelzak.blogspot.com -- 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
