Re: Damaged partition table when creating new partition after resizing another

[K.G.]

On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 14:57:48 +0100 Nick Whitehurst <address@hidden> wrote:

> Ubuntu Breezy 5.10
> using: GParted
> Operation: resize a partition to make way for adding a third partion on 
> the drive. The operation failed an left the partion table partly 
> corrupted. GParted then displayed the drive as unallocated(!) even after 
> reboot. Ubuntu, however, booted with no problems.
> 
> 
> Bug report from command-line message:
> 
> {this was copied down by hand so the line breaks are not accurate}
> 
> 1.6.21
> Assertion (metadata_length >0) at ../../libparted/disk_dos.c:1935 in 
> function add_logical_part_metadata()
> Failed
> mke2fd 1.38 (30-june-2005)
> /dev/hda7: No enough space to build proposed filesystem while setting up 
> superb lock
> Error: Unable to satisfy all contraints on the partition

Hi,

Thanks for your bug report.
We believe that this bug is fixed in our current SVN version.
An 1.6.25 version might be available soon, including this fix
and others.

Cheers,
Guillaume Knispel