{"id":61,"date":"2017-03-26T11:23:43","date_gmt":"2017-03-26T09:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomas.solamail.no\/?p=61"},"modified":"2017-03-26T11:23:43","modified_gmt":"2017-03-26T09:23:43","slug":"fdisk-force-start-sector-63","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomas.varhaug.net\/?p=61","title":{"rendered":"fdisk &#8211; force start sector 63"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you try to create a partition on newer distributions you get &#8220;out of range&#8221; error message when trying to create a new partition starting at sector 63 :<\/p>\n<pre class=\"line number6 index5 alt1\"><code class=\"java plain\">First sector (<\/code><code class=\"java value\">2048<\/code><code class=\"java plain\">-<\/code><code class=\"java value\">2930277167<\/code><code class=\"java plain\">, <\/code><code class=\"java keyword\">default<\/code> <code class=\"java value\">2048<\/code><code class=\"java plain\">): <\/code><code class=\"java value\">63<\/code>\n\n<code class=\"java plain\">Value out of range.<\/code><\/pre>\n<div class=\"line number7 index6 alt2\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"line number7 index6 alt2\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"line number7 index6 alt2\">To force the use of the now deprecated &#8220;dos style&#8221; :<\/div>\n<div class=\"line number7 index6 alt2\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"line number7 index6 alt2\"><\/div>\n<pre class=\"line number7 index6 alt2\"><code class=\"java plain\">fdisk -c=dos \/dev\/sda<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you try to create a partition on newer distributions you get &#8220;out of range&#8221; error message when trying to create a new partition starting at sector 63 : First sector (2048-2930277167, default 2048): 63 Value out of range. To force the use of the now deprecated &#8220;dos style&#8221; : fdisk -c=dos \/dev\/sda<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8],"tags":[14,13],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-ubuntu","tag-fdisk","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomas.varhaug.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomas.varhaug.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomas.varhaug.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomas.varhaug.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomas.varhaug.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tomas.varhaug.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66,"href":"https:\/\/tomas.varhaug.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomas.varhaug.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomas.varhaug.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomas.varhaug.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}