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with a raid0 disk - "Can't have a partition outside the disk"


From: Peter Maloney
Subject: with a raid0 disk - "Can't have a partition outside the disk"
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 10:48:29 +0100
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Problem:

I tried to print the partition table of the first disk in a raid0 set
(using the raw disk rather than a RAID device), expecting the partitions
to be displayed with the partition outside the disk, but instead parted
refuses to work:

# parted -s /dev/sdd unit s print
Error: Can't have a partition outside the disk!

It is clearly not an error. And in my case it is even a read only
operation, which would not even have any side effects if something
really was wrong with my request. An error is when there is a resulting
failure in doing something, rather than a belief that something is in
error. A partition table is just a bunch of numbers. If the numbers
don't make sense, that is my problem; parted's job is just to read and
write those numbers.

Solution:

Demote that to a "Warning" for read operations and do whatever is asked
anyway. If it is a write operation, optionally require a "--force" option.

fdisk instead correctly displays:

# fdisk -c -u /dev/sdd

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sdd: 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 / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x78000000

Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdd1              63      192779       96358+  de  Dell Utility
/dev/sdd2   *      194560     1730559      768000    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdd3         1730560  3774871551  1886570496    7  HPFS/NTFS

If this was a large disk with a GPT table, I would be quite annoyed,
since fdisk wouldn't work.

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