Re: [users]Gutsy installer, GParted don't see my existing partitions

On Friday 07 September 2007 22:59:29 Ari Torhamo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I met a partitioning problem when I tried to install Gutsy (Daily, Sept.
> 6). The partitioner doesn't see any of my current partitions and says
> the entire disk space is non allocated. The partitions work normally,
> and only GParted (both the installed version in Feisty and the one on
> Gutsy Live CD) and the istaller partitioner seem to have a problem with
> them. Device Manager and fdisk report the partitions correctly (as far
> as I can tell).
>
> This is what fdisk says:
>
> omitting empty partition (5)
>
> Levy /dev/sda: 250.0 Gt, 250059350016 tavua
> 255 päätä, 63 sektoria/ura, 30401 sylinteriä
> Yksiköt = 16065 * 512 = 8225280 -tavuiset sylinterit
>
> Laite Käynn Alku Loppu Lohkot Id Järjestelmä
> /dev/sda1 * 1 2805 22531131 7 HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sda2 2806 4629 14651280 83 Linux
> /dev/sda3 4630 30401 207013590 5 Laajennettu
> /dev/sda4 7059 30401 187502647+ 83 Linux
> /dev/sda5 4630 4872 1951834+ 82 Linux / Solaris
> heittovaihtotiedosto
>
> I run fsck too from the installer CD and the result was "clean" for both
> ext3 partitions. I'm not sure if I did it right though, because the
> whole checking process took only a couple of seconds. If I remember
> right, I did just "sudo fsck /dev/sda2(4)".
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions on what might be wrong here. Is the
> problem with the file system or the partitioner? Can it be corrected? I
> tried to search for the answer, but I found it hard to find a search
> string that would separate my problem from the numerous general
> instructions for partitioning a hard disk.
>
> I already added my case to an existing bug report (which doesn't seem to
> have much activity around it):
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gparted/+bug/48412
>
>
> Thanks :-)
>
> Ari Torhamo
>

I have download Daily of 6 of Set, and I'll have a look at the gparted. As future reference, when you want to force fsck just do: #fsck.ext3 -fv /dev/sda2
dont forget to umount your disk first.

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