Re: cfdisk will happily create a partition of size zero

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On 1/31/2015 4:58 AM, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> /dev/sda4               93755392  312581807  218826416  104.4G   5
> Extended |-/dev/sda5             93757440   93757440          0
> 0B  83 Linux `-Free space            93759488  312581807  218822320
> 104.4G
> 
> Strange.  Start and end of sda5 are on the same sector?

Looks like there is also an off by one error in the size calculation
since a partition that starts and ends on the same sector does still
occupy that one sector, so its size can not be zero.


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