1 (edited by Glauco 2006-12-05 01:12:54)

Topic: Trouble Moving/Resizing/Enlarging partitions

Hello, fellows.

I have tried 3 times to use the LiveCD to change my HD partitions, but no success.
All of tries give me the same error, "Invalid partition table on /dev/hda -- wrong signature".
Testdrive save my skin all the 3 times. tongue

What am I doing wrong? Am I forgetting something important?

Here is my last details:
Full gparted_details.htm

Thanks in advance and sorry my english, always learning. smile

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Re: Trouble Moving/Resizing/Enlarging partitions

see this bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=368199 for more information. I  have already attached your details there.  As you can see i have problems reproducing the bug, but maybe your information can help.

3 (edited by Glauco 2006-11-22 13:23:55)

Re: Trouble Moving/Resizing/Enlarging partitions

Man, I'm sorry to read that this is a bug. Feel free to ask any other particular info about my PC.

And I remember something that may be useful. The first 2 times I use GParted, I didn't saved the details, when I rebooted, there were no partitions. All the space was unallocated. This last, I searched this forum and saw that details is important, so I saved it in first partition, a FAT32 one, at the very beginning at the disk. Then the 3 first partitions was shown after reboot, the first FAT32 (~11GB), a second SWAP (~900MB) and a messed ext3 (supposed to be ~11GB). The rest of 80GB HD was unallocated. Testdrive restored all successfully again.

Hope this helps you in some way.

Glauco

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Re: Trouble Moving/Resizing/Enlarging partitions

plors, I was looking in bugzilla and you solved the bug, right?
But there's no new LiveCD version. Where can I get the fixed one?

And thanks for the great job in free software community you are doing.

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Re: Trouble Moving/Resizing/Enlarging partitions

You can find fixed version in cvs, but cvs if for testing only : it is not always safe.
http://gparted-forum.surf4.info/viewtopic.php?id=246

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

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Re: Trouble Moving/Resizing/Enlarging partitions

yep, it's fixed in CVS, i'll try to do a new release today

7 (edited by Glauco 2006-12-05 01:14:12)

Re: Trouble Moving/Resizing/Enlarging partitions

plors, there's another issue in new LiveCD.

Now it can't recognize the file system, wich still FAT32, with no errors, fully acessible.

libparted messages    ( INFO )
        
Could not detect file system.

Full gparted_details.htm

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Re: Trouble Moving/Resizing/Enlarging partitions

i think you detected a flaw in the new logic which only appears with fat* filesystems. I'm too sleepy now to think about it, but will in the morning.

Don't panic, there is no data lost smile

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Re: Trouble Moving/Resizing/Enlarging partitions

fixed in CVS, will do a new release tomorrow morning.

thanks for pointing this out smile

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Re: Trouble Moving/Resizing/Enlarging partitions

Well, livecd doesnt make any problem analysing fat32 with me :-/

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

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Re: Trouble Moving/Resizing/Enlarging partitions

it only happens when moving a fat* or hfs* filesystem to the left with overlap smile

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Re: Trouble Moving/Resizing/Enlarging partitions

You do a quick and very good job, plors. Can't wait to test the new LiveCD version.

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Re: Trouble Moving/Resizing/Enlarging partitions

Hi, just uploaded the latest release of the livecd, let's see about that 'very good job' tongue

Anyway, i'm glad the rollback worked fine, so users don't lose any data when something goes wrong smile

14 (edited by Glauco 2006-12-07 04:06:27)

Re: Trouble Moving/Resizing/Enlarging partitions

Oh, yeah! I forgot to mention that. Rollback is a superb feature, it encouraged me to really mess with the partition table.

And the good news, the LiveCD did everything I want it to do. I was able to move, copy, delete, resize (fat32 and ext3 partitions), fix my grub, all from LiveCD, and my system is exactly as supposed to be.

Yes, I think you did a very good job. smile

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Re: Trouble Moving/Resizing/Enlarging partitions

nice smile