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