Ubuntu
gparted package

Lots problem with resizing partitions

Bug #173168 reported by The Marauder
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: gparted

Hy,

I know I've not realy many information very precise about these problems. But since I install Ubuntu (dapper edgy feysti and gutsy) I always many problems with gparted on the live CD. 90 % of These problems not appears on the Gparted "officialy" Live CD.

It doesn't recognize very good some disks (sata only). It often can't resize ntfs, fat and ext3 partitions. When it can do it, the resizer crash often.

Today I used this tool and it crashed :

The disk :

sda1 ext3 292.29 Go
sda2 extended
sda3 swap 5.80 Go (too big it's not my fautly :D )

I had to resize the first partiton to have 260 ~ Go and 30~Go for the "bad" os

But the resizing crashed at this step : "shrink filesystem"
When we relaunch gparted, it watch the original size of this partition.

Now, we rebooted the live cd and did a fsck -vfc /dev/sda1 but there was a lot of problems same has :

"l'i-noeud effacé 28874 a un dtime à zéro. Corriger<o>"

and lots of :

Bloc(s) réclamé(s) plusieurs fois dans l'i-noeud 5046307 : 10106042
Bloc(s) réclamé(s) plusieurs fois dans l'i-noeud 5046280 : 10117122
Bloc(s) réclamé(s) plusieurs fois dans l'i-noeud 5046281 : 10117123
Bloc(s) réclamé(s) plusieurs fois dans l'i-noeud 5046282 : 10117124
Bloc(s) réclamé(s) plusieurs fois dans l'i-noeud 5046288 : 10121216
Bloc(s) réclamé(s) plusieurs fois dans l'i-noeud 5046299 : 10115072
Bloc(s) réclamé(s) plusieurs fois dans l'i-noeud 5046306 : 10106041
Bloc(s) réclamé(s) plusieurs fois dans l'i-noeud 5046307 : 10106042
Bloc(s) réclamé(s) plusieurs fois dans l'i-noeud 5046308 : 10106043

Now when we reboot and force mounting, the "ls" command return NO files and folders ...

I don't understand why the "officialy" gparted live work very good and not the ubuntu's gparted.

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Tormod Volden (tormodvolden) wrote :

gparted has a "Save Details" button which saves a summary of its actions in a HTML file. It would be nice if you could provide this.

Did you resize to have free space before or after the partition, i.e. did you change the start or the end of it?

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anatoly techtonik (techtonik) wrote :

Unfortunately, when you notice that there is something wrong with your partition, Save Details button is already gone. Proposal to save details beforehand would definitely helped debugging broken fat32 filesystems after resizing/check. It is also highly desirable to save details not just for one run/operation, but for all runs during the same session. It is also highly desirable to have a backup log in case something went wrong to try and move data back.

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xteejx (xteejx) wrote :

Can you confirm if this is a problem with the Karmic live CD, as I am unable to reproduce this. Thank you.

Changed in gparted (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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xteejx (xteejx) wrote :

Closing bug report as the information needed has not been given. If you can provide it you can reopen the bug by changing the status back to New.

Changed in gparted (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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