On 11/12/2016 4:55 AM, Hans Peter Würmli wrote: > > My system is Debian testing and kernel version "Linux version 4.7.0-1- > amd64 (debian-ker...@lists.debian.org) (gcc version 5.4.1 20160904 > (Debian 5.4.1-2) ) #1 SMP Debian 4.7.8-1 (2016-10-19)". > > GNU Parted has version 3.2. > > I reordered partitions to their natural order using fdisk. After > rebooting and using gparted (or parted) I get an error with > message "Assertion (metadata_length > 0) at > ../../../libparted/labels/dos.c:2313 in function > add_logical_part_metadata() failed".
Finally, a clue as to how people are having this happen. I have no idea why fdisk has that option or why anyone would ever use it, but it seems like that is the culprit for ending up with these goofy partition tables. Please provide the output of fdisk -l, as well as dd if=/dev/sda count=1 | hd.
