Re: Unable to align partition

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 09:53:04AM -0500, gplou centrenad com wrote:
> > Supposedly (comments either in bugzilla or one of these mailing lists) the
> > problem is that the 2.6 kernel has changed a few things and also parted
> > has
> > been changed to not "fixup" things.  The result is that (IMHO) things are
> > broken.  OK, what can be done ...

The kernel now lets user space handle partition maps. Since the case
you are talking about involves a pre-existing partition table it is 
clearly a bug in parted/disk druid as the partition numbers can be (and
should have been) taken from the table itself.

The fun starts with a blank disk. In those cases providing Linux writes
the partition table either native or to match the BIOS windows should
then adopt that partition map too. (and in theory but evidently not
practice this beta 8) the reverse)

Alan