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Topic: partition table not recognized

Sinze gparted has become part of the Ubuntu installer (Dapper. Edgy), I have problems during the installation because gparted often does not read the partition table correctly.

When I want to (re-)install to an already partitioned drive (only the system partition without destroying the data partition) this becomes impossible if the partitioning tool does not recognize the current setup.

It seems that gparted has problems with logical partitions. I had created 1 primary, 1 primary swap, and 2 logical partitions with cfdisk (all Linux partitions) (see print-out below). No luck.

fdisk and cfdisk can read it, the kernel (2.6) can use it, but gparted does not recognize it.

Any suggestions why that is?

fdisk -l /dev/hdb

Disk /dev/hdb: 164.6 GB, 164696555520 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 20023 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdb1               1         109      875511   83  Linux
/dev/hdb2             110         182      586372+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hdb3             183       13877   110005087+   5  Extended
/dev/hdb5             183        7652    60002743+  83  Linux
/dev/hdb6            7653       13877    50002281   83  Linux

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Re: partition table not recognized

Plors may give you some help, but atm he is overbooked. However you could try to contact parted team, on irc (freenode #arted) or mailling them.
I think this is a libparted problem, but i am not sure.

Larry
GParted-project Admin
Former GParted-LiveCD maintainer (2007)

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Re: partition table not recognized

the partitiontable looks ok, what does 'parted' has to say about this?

4 (edited by monti 2007-10-24 11:02:41)

Re: partition table not recognized

This is indeed a libparted problem:

http://parted.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin … /ticket/50

(EDIT: changed the URL)