GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 707419
Gives error while checking/repairing/resizing fat32 efi partition.
Last modified: 2020-09-27 08:36:47 UTC
Created attachment 254016 [details] error I have tried this operation both from my OS, I unmount the fat32 /boot/efi partition, but cannot perform any operation as mentioned in summary. Tried this while booting from an externel OS loaded on my externel HDD, but the error persists. After showing the error which I attach in screenshot, it automatically remounts it back to /boot/efi.
Created attachment 254017 [details] details of error
This bug I found on multiple distros like Debian and Manjaro.
Hi Aaditya, Please (1) [Save Details] and upload the file. (2) Show the output of these commands: fdisk -l /dev/sda parted /dev/sda print Thanks, Mike
(In reply to comment #3) > Hi Aaditya, > > Please > (1) [Save Details] and upload the file. > (2) Show the output of these commands: > fdisk -l /dev/sda > parted /dev/sda print > > Thanks, > Mike running gpt here, so sudo gdisk -l /dev/sda1 GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.5 Partition table scan: MBR: protective BSD: not present APM: not present GPT: present Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT. Disk /dev/sda: 1465149168 sectors, 698.6 GiB Logical sector size: 512 bytes Disk identifier (GUID): 555E9714-3031-4B43-863B-EF891E942D5C Partition table holds up to 128 entries First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 1465149134 Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries Total free space is 3757 sectors (1.8 MiB) Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name 1 2048 167774207 80.0 GiB 0700 Microsoft basic data 2 167774208 838862847 320.0 GiB 0700 Microsoft basic Data 3 838862848 1048168447 99.8 GiB 0700 Microsoft basic data 4 1048168448 1048580095 201.0 MiB 0700 5 1048580096 1132468223 40.0 GiB 8300 Linux filesystem 6 1132468224 1216356351 40.0 GiB 8300 Linux filesystem 7 1216356352 1224744959 4.0 GiB 8200 Linux swap 8 1224744960 1350574079 60.0 GiB 0700 9 1350574080 1465147391 54.6 GiB 0700 parted was not installed, after installing it and running sudo parted /dev/sda print Model: ATA ST750LM022 HN-M7 (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 750GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B Partition Table: gpt Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 1049kB 85.9GB 85.9GB ntfs Microsoft basic data 2 85.9GB 429GB 344GB ntfs Microsoft basic Data 3 429GB 537GB 107GB ntfs Microsoft basic data 4 537GB 537GB 211MB fat32 5 537GB 580GB 43.0GB ext4 Linux filesystem 6 580GB 623GB 43.0GB ext4 Linux filesystem 7 623GB 627GB 4295MB linux-swap(v1) Linux swap 8 627GB 691GB 64.4GB ext4 9 691GB 750GB 58.7GB ext4
Thank you Aaditya for providing the requested output. The error message in comment #1 indicates that the resize problem occurred with FAT32 partition /dev/sda4. The error message text indicated the following: "GNU Parted cannot resize this partition to this size. We're working on it!" From the output you provided in comment #4, the fat32 /dev/sda4 partition appears to be 211 MB in size. Unfortunately the libparted library (from the parted project) used by GParted is unable to resize FAT partitions that are smaller than 256 MB in size. This is a known problem that has been reported upstream to the parted project, but to my knowledge this problem has not been resolved. As such I a marking this report as a duplicate of the following report: Bug #649324 - failure to move / resize fat32 partitions less than 256 MB in size *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 649324 ***