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.... > _______________________________________________ Bug-parted mailing list Bug-parted@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-parted
