Used Gparted to try and resize /dev/sdc7 with the following results:
GParted 0.3.3

Libparted 1.7.1

Move /dev/sdc7 to the left and shrink it from 225.62 GiB to 5.86 GiB  00:01    ( ERROR )
     	
calibrate /dev/sdc7  00:01    ( SUCCES )
     	
path: /dev/sdc7
start: 4867758
end: 478030139
size: 473162382 (225.62 GiB)
calculate new size and position of /dev/sdc7  00:00    ( SUCCES )
     	
requested start: 4867695
requested end: 17157419
requested size: 12289725 (5.86 GiB)
new start: 4867758
new end: 17157419
new size: 12289662 (5.86 GiB)
check filesystem on /dev/sdc7 for errors and (if possible) fix them  00:00    ( ERROR )
     	
e2fsck -f -y -v /dev/sdc7
     	
/dev/sdc7 is mounted.
e2fsck 1.40.2 (12-Jul-2007)
e2fsck: Cannot continue, aborting.



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Create Logical Partition #1 (linux-swap, 219.76 GiB) on /dev/sdc

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I suspect that Gparted was trying to e2fsck /dev/sdc7 which is locked and not the new partition!

Clay

> -----Original Message-----
> From: situationalawareness@gmail.com
> Sent: Sun, 11 May 2008 18:58:00 -0700
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: Installed Ubuntu 8.04
> 
> I had that same problem back in 1999 or 2000 I believe.  I used LILO
> to get around it...
> Had something to do with the segment it was located on the disk, and
> the hardware having problems addressing past a certain part at boot.
> For some reason, hard reset and soft reset have different
> characteristics.  & only on some hardware....
> One way to work around it is to create a real small partition for boot
> as (h|s)da1... like 25mb or 50mb.  Try pulling everything down to 1 or
> 2gb for the second partition and use the final partition for swap
> space.  If that works, you know the problem.
> Or just use LILO when Grub's not your thing :)  (disclaimer: I've
> never used Ubuntu, so I'm not sure of the "only uses <x> application"
> setup for them.
> 
> --Dan
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