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Topic: limitations partition. [Solved]

System: PCLinuxOS 64bit
GParted 0.26.0
SMBIOS 2.7 present
hard drive, new :  WD Black 1TB      1003FZEX  (formated to ms-dos)
motheboard, old maybe 3-5year :       MSI     Z77A-G43 (MS-7758)   
power suply: Thermaltake Smart SE    SPS-530M   (530W)

First I had problem created  partitions  on PCLinuxOS and Fedora on sda cable,
I had  (translated from pl to en)

Logs from Fedora

Primary partition created # 6 (ext4 101.93 GiB) on / dev / hda 0:22:26 (ERROR)
   
creating an empty partition 0:22:26 (ERROR)
Messages library libparted (NOTE)
   
Error syncing / close / dev / sda1: Input / output error
Error syncing / close / dev / sda1: Input / output error
Error syncing / close / dev / sda1: Input / output error
Error syncing / close / dev / sda1: Input / output error
Error syncing / close / dev / sda1: Input / output error
Error syncing / close / dev / sda1: Input / output error
Error syncing / close / dev / sda2: Input / output error
Error syncing / close / dev / hda: Input / output error
Error syncing / close / dev / sda1: Input / output error
Error syncing / close / dev / sda2: Input / output error
/ Dev / hda: unrecognized disk label
Error syncing / close / dev / hda: Input / output error

GParted 0.23.0 --enable-libparted-dmraid --enable-online-resize

Library libparted 3.2

Primary partition created # 3 (ext4 38.75 GiB) on / dev / hda 0:06:34 (SUCCESSFUL)
    
creating an empty partition 0:00:00 (SUCCESSFUL)
    
Path: / dev / sda1 (partition)
beginning: 1855848448
Finally: 1937115135
Size: 81266688 (38.75 GiB)
cleaning old signature file system on / dev / sda1 0:00:13 (SUCCESSFUL)
    
write 68.00 KiB of zeros byte at offset 0 0:00:00 (SUCCESSFUL)
write 4.00 KiB of zeros at the byte offset 67108864 0:00:00 (SUCCESSFUL)
write 4.00 KiB of zeros at the byte offset 41608540160 0:00:00 (SUCCESSFUL)
cleaning the cache of the operating system / dev / hda 0:00:13 (SUCCESSFUL)
Set the type of partition / dev / sda1 0:00:20 (SUCCESSFUL)
    
a new type of partition: ext4
create a new ext4 file system 0:06:01 (SUCCESSFUL)
    
mkfs.ext4 -F -L "1BOOT" / dev / sda1
    
Creating a file system on 10158080 2544480 4k blocks and i-nodes
UUID file system: 0c6181d2-9aee-4a75-88a7-7a443ac2f9f6
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208,
4096000, 7962624

Assigning an array groups: completed
Writing inode table and: completed
Creating a chronicle (32768 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem summary: made

mke2fs 1.42.13 (17-May-2015)
========================================

Primary partition created # 5 (ext4 100.88 GiB) on / dev / hda 0:02:57 (SUCCESSFUL)
    
creating an empty partition 0:00:33 (SUCCESSFUL)
    
Path: / dev / sda2 (partition)
beginning: 1644281856
Finally: 1855848447
size: 211566592 (100.88 GiB)
cleaning old signature file system on / dev / sda2 0:00:14 (SUCCESSFUL)
    
write 68.00 KiB of zeros byte at offset 0 0:00:00 (SUCCESSFUL)
write 4.00 KiB of zeros at the byte offset 67108864 0:00:00 (SUCCESSFUL)
write 4.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 108 322 091 008 0:00:00 (SUCCESSFUL)
cleaning the cache of the operating system / dev / hda 0:00:14 (SUCCESSFUL)
Set the type of partition / dev / sda2 0:00:20 (SUCCESSFUL)
    
a new type of partition: ext4
create a new ext4 file system 0:01:50 (SUCCESSFUL)
    
mkfs.ext4 -F -L "2" / dev / sda2
    
Creating a file system on 26445824 6619136 4k blocks and i-nodes
UUID file system: d6a950f3-f9e5-412a-b116-3da5a6b0c029
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208,
4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 20480000, 23887872

Assigning an array groups: completed
Writing inode table and: completed
Creating a chronicle (32768 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem summary: made

mke2fs 1.42.13 (17-May-2015)
========================================

Primary partition created # 6 (ext4 101.93 GiB) on / dev / hda 0:22:26 (ERROR)
    
creating an empty partition 0:22:26 (ERROR)
Messages library libparted (NOTE)
    
Error syncing / close / dev / sda1: Input / output error
Error syncing / close / dev / sda1: Input / output error
Error syncing / close / dev / sda1: Input / output error
Error syncing / close / dev / sda1: Input / output error
Error syncing / close / dev / sda1: Input / output error
Error syncing / close / dev / sda1: Input / output error
Error syncing / close / dev / sda2: Input / output error
Error syncing / close / dev / hda: Input / output error
Error syncing / close / dev / sda1: Input / output error
Error syncing / close / dev / sda2: Input / output error
/ Dev / hda: unrecognized disk label
Error syncing / close / dev / hda: Input / output error
========================================

Extended partition created # 7 (extended, 682.13 GiB) on / dev / hda
========================================

A logical partition created # 8 (ext4 99.59 GiB) on / dev / hda
========================================

A logical partition created # 9 (ext4 101.36 GiB) on / dev / hda
========================================

A logical partition created # 11 (ext4 334.03 GiB) on / dev / hda
========================================

A logical partition created # 12 (ext4 105.86 GiB) on / dev / hda
========================================

I checked the cable, was the same,
so I  swapped disks places
and now I have:

log from PCLinuxOS

GParted 0.26.0 --enable-online-resize

Library libparted 3.2

A logical partition created # 1 (ext4 332.56 GiB) on / dev / sdb 0:00:00 (ERROR)
   
creating an empty partition 0:00:00 (ERROR)
Messages library libparted (NOTE)
   
You can not satisfy all constraints on the partition.

This is ext4 332.56 GiB logic partition.
My Midori (when I tried open log) and Skype (now when Im trying write, before worked) stops once per hour, so maybe my sda
(cable or motheboard or one cable from power suply) is broken.

But what is wrong with this ext4 332.56 GiB logic on sdb partition ?
Why I can not create ?

Edit:
Instead 332.56 GiB I tried created 3 partitions about 98GB
and I have 98GB Eroor, 97.66 OK, and maybe 95GB Error

A logical partition created # 1 (ext4 95.88 GiB) on / dev / sdb 0:00:00 (ERROR)
     
creating an empty partition 0:00:00 (ERROR)
Messages library libparted (NOTE)
     
You can not satisfy all constraints on the partition.

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Re: limitations partition. [Solved]

tele wrote:

But what is wrong with this ext4 332.56 GiB logic on sdb partition ?
Why I can not create ?

The "Error syncing / close / dev / sda1: Input / output error" messages indicate a hardware problem.  This could be a simple as a poor cable connection or as serious as a failing hard drive.

The "You can not satisfy all constraints on the partition" message indicates that somehow GParted was trying to create a partition that violates at least one partitioning rule.  You might have discovered a bug.

Can you try creating a smaller partition, perhaps with unallocated space in front and after?

3 Reply by tele (edited by tele 2016-05-15 11:32:54)

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Re: limitations partition. [Solved]

The "You can not satisfy all constraints on the partition" message indicates that somehow GParted was trying to create a partition that violates at least one partitioning rule.  You might have discovered a bug.

Can you try creating a smaller partition, perhaps with unallocated space in front and after?

-  I tried , I wrote at the bottom, and 1 partition from 3 have the same error.
- I used GParted 0.16.1 from UBCD v5.3.2  and he don't show    "You can not satisfy all constraints on the partition"
   and partition is created.
- I checked RAM , with UBCD with 2 version Memtest86 and without errors
- I checked hard drive: 

smartctl 5.43 2012-06-30 r3573 [i686-linux-3.10.4-pmagic] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-12 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model:     WDC WD1003FZEX-00MK2A0
Serial Number:    WD-WCC3F5LZUZV4
LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 2b7db1864
Firmware Version: 01.01A01
User Capacity:    1,000,204,886,016 bytes [1.00 TB]
Sector Sizes:     512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Device is:        Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is:   8
ATA Standard is:  ACS-2 (unknown minor revision code: 0x001f)
Local Time is:    Sun May 15 08:32:02 2016 AKDT
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status:  (0x80)    Offline data collection activity
                    was never started.
                    Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
Self-test execution status:      (   0)    The previous self-test routine completed
                    without error or no self-test has ever 
                    been run.
Total time to complete Offline 
data collection:         (11520) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities:              (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
                    Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
                    Suspend Offline collection upon new
                    command.
                    Offline surface scan supported.
                    Self-test supported.
                    Conveyance Self-test supported.
                    Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities:            (0x0003)    Saves SMART data before entering
                    power-saving mode.
                    Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability:        (0x01)    Error logging supported.
                    General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine 
recommended polling time:      (   2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time:      ( 119) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time:      (   5) minutes.
SCT capabilities:            (0x3035)    SCT Status supported.
                    SCT Feature Control supported.
                    SCT Data Table supported.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x002f   200   200   051    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0027   172   172   021    Pre-fail  Always       -       2366
  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       8
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   200   200   140    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x002e   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       24
 10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0032   100   253   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032   100   253   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       8
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       3
193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       4
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   115   113   000    Old_age   Always       -       28
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0030   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate   0x0008   200   200   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0

SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num  Test_Description    Status                  Remaining  LifeTime(hours)  LBA_of_first_error
# 1  Extended offline    Completed without error       00%        17         -
# 2  Conveyance offline  Completed without error       00%        15         -
# 3  Short offline       Completed without error       00%        15         -
# 4  Conveyance offline  Completed without error       00%        12         -
# 5  Conveyance offline  Completed without error       00%        12         -

SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
 SPAN  MIN_LBA  MAX_LBA  CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
    1        0        0  Not_testing
    2        0        0  Not_testing
    3        0        0  Not_testing
    4        0        0  Not_testing
    5        0        0  Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
  After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.

I use this drive for about 20 hours, gsmart not show any error.
- and I checked with   Data Lifeguard Tools (Western Digital)  from UBCD,
    0 errors with fast and extended test.

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Re: limitations partition. [Solved]

Thanks for providing the smartctl information.  I agree that the hard drive appears to be in good health.

The "Error syncing / close / dev / sda1: Input / output error" messages usually indicate a hardware problem so if the hard drive is healthy, then something else is not.  Perhaps the cable or cable connection is faulty and works intermittently.  You might try another cable.

Regarding the "You can not satisfy all constraints on the partition" message, you might try creating the partition using Cylinder alignment.  With Cylinder alignment, GParted lets the libparted library adjust the partition boundaries if needed to ensure these are valid.

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Re: limitations partition. [Solved]

Regarding the "You can not satisfy all constraints on the partition" message, you might try creating the partition using Cylinder alignment.  With Cylinder alignment, GParted lets the libparted library adjust the partition boundaries if needed to ensure these are valid.

With Cylinder alignment, partition created 
          ( larger, smaller, what I want )    .
With MiB alignment, partition not created .

Thanks ! smile

PS: Older GParted used Cylinder alignment in default ?

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Re: limitations partition. [Solved]

tele wrote:

PS: Older GParted used Cylinder alignment in default ?

MiB alignment is set as default since 0.6.x versions, dated 2010.
You can find related info in the GParted News.

*** It is highly recommended to backup any important files before doing resize/move operations. ***

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Re: limitations partition. [Solved]

My friend suggests I had problem,
because I have new hard drive with  4k sectors,
but I'm not sure, I don't seen this problem with older GParted from UBCD,
maybe this is only my case.
( accidentally could be equal cylinders and MiB .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Format

fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 931,5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Units: sektorów of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x5c264bcb

Urządzenie Rozruch      Start     Koniec    Sektory   Size Id Typ
/dev/sda1          1863668520 1953520064   89851545  42,9G 83 Linux
/dev/sda2          1647481815 1863668519  216186705 103,1G 83 Linux
/dev/sda3          1423423260 1647481814  224058555 106,9G 83 Linux
/dev/sda4                  63 1423423259 1423423197 678,8G  5 Rozszerzona
/dev/sda5          1189982745 1423423259  233440515 111,3G 83 Linux
/dev/sda6           968639238 1189982744  221343507 105,6G 83 Linux
/dev/sda7           740034288  968639174  228604887   109G 83 Linux
/dev/sda8                 189  740034224  740034036 352,9G 83 Linux

  So MiB not support 4k sectors ?

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Re: limitations partition. [Solved]

MiB does support 4k sectors, and is best for newer drives.

As I mentioned earlier you might try using MiB alignment but leave an extra 1 MiB unallocated at the front and the end of the partition.