Re: Error message

[B.Hakvoort]

Hi Ugo,

i guess some partitions are overlapping.
could you send us the output of 'fdisk -lu' ?

thnks :)

On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 16:07 +0100, Ugo Locatelli wrote:
>      Dear Sir/Madame
>       (in case either Bart or Harley is in touch, Hi),
> 
> mmmhhhh.... I'm a little confused, perhaps by the front-end (I'm used to 
> play with KDE, so I'm in trouble with gparted).
> 
> Summary:
> 
> 1) downloaded and installed parted_1.6.25
> 
> 2) installed gparted (version 0.0.8-1) by apt-get
> (I had some problem to install the 0.0.9 starting from the tar.bz2 file)
> 
> 3) when I run parted, it complains a little but it rightly prints the 
> partition, i.e.:
> 
> (parted) print
> Error: Invalid partition table on /UNIONFS/dev/hda -- wrong signature 0.
> Ignore/Cancel? I
> Disk geometry for /UNIONFS/dev/hda: 0kB - 30GB
> Disk label type: msdos
> Number  Start   End     Size    Type      File system  Flags
> 1       32kB    8349MB  8349MB  primary   fat32        boot, lba
> 2       8349MB  9147MB  798MB   extended
> 4       9147MB  11GB    1571MB  primary
> 3       11GB    30GB    19GB    primary   ext3
> 
> 
> Partition numbered as 2 is the swap partition, partition numbered as 3
> is for playing with rather small Linux distributions obtained by 
> a remastering of Knoppix, DSL, etc.
> Partitions numbered as 1 and 4 are the important ones.
> 
> 
> 
> 4) when I run gparted, it always says to me that the HD is unallocated
> and I'm not able to access the interesting information.
> 
> 
> 
> Which step do you suggest to be the next one?
> 
> 
> Many thanks,
> Ugo
> 
> 
> 
> P.S. Be quiet! I'm not in trouble with the HD (I can work both with Linux
> in the last partition and with Windows in the first one). However, I'm 
> very interested in producing produce a remastering (for students) with a 
> well working partitioner. I've previously used qtparted without any problem, 
> but on my laptop after the last attempt to resize the vfat partition...
> It didn't succeed and it started to give me the message I've sent you a 
> few days ago....
>