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Damaged partition table when creating new partition after resizing anoth
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Nick Whitehurst |
Subject: |
Damaged partition table when creating new partition after resizing another |
Date: |
Mon, 24 Oct 2005 14:57:48 +0100 |
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Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051013) |
Ubuntu Breezy 5.10
using: GParted
Operation: resize a partition to make way for adding a third partion on
the drive. The operation failed an left the partion table partly
corrupted. GParted then displayed the drive as unallocated(!) even after
reboot. Ubuntu, however, booted with no problems.
Bug report from command-line message:
{this was copied down by hand so the line breaks are not accurate}
1.6.21
Assertion (metadata_length >0) at ../../libparted/disk_dos.c:1935 in
function add_logical_part_metadata()
Failed
mke2fd 1.38 (30-june-2005)
/dev/hda7: No enough space to build proposed filesystem while setting up
superb lock
Error: Unable to satisfy all contraints on the partition
The last line was repeated anytime parted or gparted was used. I
eventually fixed the problem using fdisk to deleting a rogue entry for
hda7 which had been entered into the partition table incorrectly. It had
the same start and end point which I think was 2445 with a size of 31+.
The partition which had been resized was hda6 which appears to not have
been changed.
Here is the current partition table for that drive:
Disk /dev/hda: 20.4 GB, 20480237568 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2489 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1222 9815683+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 1223 2489 10177177+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 2445 2489 361431 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda6 1223 2444 9815652 83 Linux
Partition table entries are not in disk order
- Damaged partition table when creating new partition after resizing another,
Nick Whitehurst <=