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Command : cfdisk -P s /dev/sdb gives the output FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 0: Partition ends in the final partial cylinder
while "Parted -l" successfully lists the partition table ...
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FATAL ERROR cfdisk
Command : cfdisk -P s /dev/sdb gives the output FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 0: Partition ends in the final partial cylinder
while "Parted -l" successfully lists the partition table for the drive.
Plz explain the FATAL ERROR part. How can i list the partition table using the cfdisk command itself?
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cfdisk is very senstive and doesn't edit partition tables that don't end in an specific cylinder. You can probably resize the partition using parted to use the complete cylinder. I'm not sure if this is possible. So what are you tried to do that requires cfdisk and not parted or simply fdisk?
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I am trying to find out unallocated(unpartition). parted -l does not show unallocated(unpartition),
Originally Posted by Juan Pablo 
that's why i am using cfdisk command. Could you please tell me possible way to do this?
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