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Bug 698010 - Moving partition is not working
Moving partition is not working
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 697727
Product: gparted
Classification: Other
Component: application
0.15.0
Other All
: Normal major
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Assigned To: gparted maintainers alias
gparted maintainers alias
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-04-14 17:52 UTC by Brendan Abolivier
Modified: 2013-04-17 17:58 UTC
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Description Brendan Abolivier 2013-04-14 17:52:34 UTC 
I tried to move a partition to the left, my main partition with my important datas on it, then, during the move, GParted crashes. It's not a bug which happens only once since it happened to me 3 times in a row.
Comment 1 Curtis Gedak 2013-04-14 17:57:48 UTC 
Thank you Brendan for reporting this problem.

Are you using GParted from a Live CD?  If so which one?
If not, then what GNU/Linux distribution are you using GParted from?

We are currently investigating a crash problem when copying a partition, which uses much of the same code as a move operation.

See Bug #697727 - Segfault in livecd Gparted v 0.15.0-3 when copying partition

Until we determine what the problem is, we recommend using the previous 0.14.1 version of GParted.

To help with our investigation, would you be able to provide a stack trace similar to those in bug #697727?
Comment 2 Brendan Abolivier 2013-04-14 18:02:58 UTC 
I'm using GParted from a live USB (0.15.0-3, the version provided by LinuxLive USB Creator). I'm actually trying to recover the partition with a v0.14.1-6 live USB and it looks like working, though.
Comment 3 Curtis Gedak 2013-04-14 18:33:05 UTC 
Thank you for responding with the GParted Live version you used.

With a crash that occurs during a partition move, there will be a portion moved to the new location, and a portion not yet copied from the old location.

Since many file systems store data at towards the start of the partition, hopefully all of your data was moved before the crash occurred.  Or hopefully the old partition data was not overwritten.  Either scenario makes it easier to recover data.  The most difficult recoveries involve when the new partition location overlaps a portion of the old partition location.
Comment 4 Curtis Gedak 2013-04-17 17:58:20 UTC 
We have discovered a problem with GParted 0.15.0 and copying/moving partitions due to a bug in the glibmm libary.  Since we are working the problem in a different report, I a marking this bug as a duplicate.

Also since the bug affects more than just the Live CD, I am moving this report from component livecd to application.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 697727 ***