Re: FreeBSD UFS partitions not recognized

[Curtis Gedak]

Thank you Hans for the quick response.

It does appear that there is a problem with Ubuntu's version 1.8.9 of 
parted.

Hopefully someone from Ubuntu, or the Parted team will be able to help.

One item that would be useful to these folks would be test the latest 
development version of parted with this problem.   A link to the GIT 
version of parted can be found on the parted web site.
http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/download.shtml

Regards,
Curtis Gedak
Maintainer of GParted

H wrote:
> Curtis Gedak wrote on 20090305:
>
>   
> > GParted is a separate project that uses libparted for many of it's
> > partition editing functionality.
> >
> > To help diagnose the problem, would you please provide the output from
> > the following commands:
> >
> >     fdisk -l -u
> >     
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders, total 156301488 sectors
> Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x8f800100
>
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *          63    25173854    12586896    7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sda2        25174800    90704879    32765040   a5  FreeBSD
> /dev/sda4        90704880   156296384    32795752+   5  Extended
> /dev/sda5       122169600   124830719     1330560   82  Linux swap / Solaris
> /dev/sda6       124830783   156295439    15732328+  83  Linux
> /dev/sda7        90705006   122169599    15732297   83  Linux
>
>   
> >     parted /path-to-your-disk-device unit s print
> >     
>
> # parted /dev/sda2 unit s print
> Error: /dev/sda2: unrecognised disk label
>
>   
> > If the parted command fails to recognize the partitions as UFS, then
> > we  might be looking at a bug in parted.
> >     
>
> This seems to be the case.
>
> # parted -v
> parted (GNU parted) 1.8.9
>
> This is on Ubuntu 8.10. I've moved and resized the FreeBSD partitions
> from within FreeBSD itself and used GParted for the extended partition
> with Linux in it. The output above is of the new situation. All 5 OSes
> boot fine btw.
>
> regards,
>    Hans Lambermont
>
> ps. please CC me as I'm not subscribed to this list.
>