On 12/13/2016 6:09 PM, Rauno Viskus wrote: > As much as I found searching aroud mentioned about partitions needing at > least a sector in between eachother for metadata - is that it? Weird thing > is that everything worked before I removed my Windows partition from the > gap in between sda1 and sda3. > > Output of fdisk -l: > > > Disk /dev/sda: 238.5 GiB, 256060514304 bytes, 500118192 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 > Disklabel type: dos > Disk identifier: 0x9a232254 > > Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type > /dev/sda1 * 2048 3074047 3072000 1.5G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT > /dev/sda3 397805566 485435391 87629826 41.8G 5 Extended > /dev/sda5 397805568 436865023 39059456 18.6G 83 Linux > /dev/sda6 436867072 466163711 29296640 14G 83 Linux > /dev/sda7 466163712 485435391 19271680 9.2G 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Yes, you have to have at least one sector between partitions for the chained EBR. I'm curious as to what messed up partitioning tool created this layout.
