GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 353253
only one partition (incorrectly) displayed for each disk
Last modified: 2010-03-21 13:17:53 UTC
Please describe the problem: When I launch gparted (as root, from Ubuntu dapper), it believes my 2 physical disks have only one patition each (completely filling the disks), wich is not true. The same happens when I launch gparted (or qtparted, by the way) from the latest live CD. Another symptom: when I launch gparted from a (root) command line, it starts with this message in the console: "Currently, only 1 or 2 FATs are supported, not 246." The same message displays (for the second disk only) on the graphical interface. However, the command line utilities fdisk and cfdisk display things well [but I think I can't use them for what I want to do: resize partitions]. The following are what cfdisk correctly finds for my 2 disks: (sorry, it's in French. As you probably guess, Primaire=primary; logique=logical) cfdisk 2.12r Unité de disque: /dev/hda Taille: 41110142976 octets, 41.1 Go Têtes: 255 Secteurs par piste: 63 Cylindres: 4998 Nom Fanions Part Type Type SF [�iq.] Taille (Mo) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ hda1 Amorce Primaire FAT16 [NO NAME ] 57,58 hda5 Logique NTFS 8455,59 hda6 Logique NTFS [] 32596,79 cfdisk 2.12r Unité de disque: /dev/hdb Taille: 81964302336 octets, 81.9 Go Têtes: 255 Secteurs par piste: 63 Cylindres: 9964 Nom Fanions Part Type Type SF [�iq.] Taille (Mo) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ hdb1 Amorce Primaire Linux ext2 57,58 hdb5 Logique Linux swap / Solaris 633,35 hdb6 Logique Linux ext3 [/] 10840,92 (this is my root) hdb7 Logique Linux ext3 [/] 4375,85 (this is part of my user files) hdb8 Logique NTFS 4219,57 hdb9 Logique W95 FAT32 20982,69 hdb10 Logique NTFS 2097,45 hdb11 Logique NTFS [] 38749,30 gparted believes I have only one partition in each disk. I've been advised here (http://gparted-forum.surf4.info/viewtopic.php?id=66) to use the most recent gparted live-cd, with the same result. Partition / File system / Size /used:unused /dev/hda1 fat16 38.29 Go 38.23 Go 54.1 Mo (for disk1) /dev/hdb1 fat16 76.34 Go (other information not avalaible; a warning says it is not possible to read the content of the file system) From the live CD, I have same results: On gparted, with the /dev/hdb disk (no with /dev/hda), there is a warning sign beside the name of the "fist" partition. Right-click leads to the following information: "Currently, only 1 or 2 FATS are supported, not 246" ================================================ cfdisk 2.12r Disk Drive: /dev/hda Size: 41110142976 bytes, 41.1 GB Heads: 255 Sectors per Track: 63 Cylinders: 4998 Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Label] Size (MB) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ hda1 Boot Primary FAT16 [NO NAME ] 57,58 hda5 Logical NTFS 8455,59 hda6 Logical NTFS [^C] 32596,79 =================================================== cfdisk 2.12r Disk Drive: /dev/hdb Size: 81964302336 bytes, 81.9 GB Heads: 255 Sectors per Track: 63 Cylinders: 9964 Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Label] Size (MB) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ hdb1 Boot Primary Linux ext2 57,58 hdb5 Logical Linux swap / Solaris 633,35 hdb6 Logical Linux ext3 [/] 10840,92 hdb7 Logical Linux ext3 [/] 4375,85 hdb8 Logical NTFS 4219,57 hdb9 Logical W95 FAT32 20982,69 hdb10 Logical NTFS 2097,45 hdb11 Logical NTFS [^D] 38749,30 =================================================== root@GParted:~# fdisk /dev/hda The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 4998. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/hda: 41.1 GB, 41110142976 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4998 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 7 56196 6 FAT16 /dev/hda2 8 4998 40090207+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 8 1035 8257378+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda6 1036 4998 31832766 7 HPFS/NTFS =================================================== root@GParted:~# fdisk /dev/hdb The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 9964. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/hdb: 81.9 GB, 81964302336 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9964 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb1 * 1 7 56196 83 Linux /dev/hdb2 8 9964 79979602+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hdb5 8 84 618471 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/hdb6 85 1402 10586803+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb7 1403 1934 4273258+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb8 1935 2447 4120641 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hdb9 2448 4998 20490876 b W95 FAT32 /dev/hdb10 4999 5253 2048256 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hdb11 5254 9964 37841076 7 HPFS/NTFS =================================================== root@GParted:~# parted /dev/hda GNU Parted 1.7.1 Using /dev/hda Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands. (parted) p Disk /dev/hda: 41,1GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: loop Number Start End Size File system Flags 1 0,00kB 41,1GB 41,1GB fat16 (parted) =================================================== root@GParted:~# parted /dev/hdb GNU Parted 1.7.1 Using /dev/hdb Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands. (parted) p Disk /dev/hdb: 82,0GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: loop Number Start End Size File system Flags 1 0,00kB 82,0GB 82,0GB fat16 (parted) ==================================================== (end of info from the live-cd) Steps to reproduce: run gparted Actual results: Partitions incorrectly displayed. Expected results: Partitions correctly displayed. Does this happen every time? Yes Other information: If I remember it well, I partitioned all of this using the Ubuntu setup CD (maybe 1 year and a half ago).
Created attachment 71781 [details] screenshot from live-cd with same problem, disk hda screenshot would be identical from ubuntu dapper (gparted 0.1)
Created attachment 71783 [details] screenshot from live-cd with same problem, disk hdb same as for hda
I am experiencing the same thing. I have tried with gparted versions 0.3.4-5 (gparted livecd) and 0.2.5-2 (from debian testing). See http://gparted-forum.surf4.info/viewtopic.php?id=576 for details.
Okay, this is actually a libparted issue: http://parted.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/ticket/14
The parted ticket URL has changed to http://parted.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/ticket/50
Would you be able to try this problem with the latest version of GParted and a recent version of Parted? Both of these can be found on the GParted Live 0.5.1-1 CD.
Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information asked for. Thanks!