18446744067 GB unallocatad space

[cent]

Apparently there is a rift in the bit continuum inside my hard drive:
148535
what happens if I press create? will it create a FAT file system with the size of 18446744067491 MB?

[jflaker]

Something tells me the Drive is a bit over zealous.

It will probably try/start to create a file system but will quickly run out of real estate in doing so.

I remember back before the GB drives, I had a 700MB drive that claimed it was in the TB....so I formatted and the drive crashed as it ran out of real estate.....I ended up having to use the manufacturer's utility to low level format and start over.

[koleoptero]

I suggest backing up everything and kill everything in the drive and create the partition table from the beginning.

[nerdopolis]

I would not recommend creating that partition. Its probably an error with your partition table or program you are using. I don't know what that would do to your partition table.
And the FAT32 file system cant see over 32gb anyway.

[cent]

Testdisk tells the following on the partition table



Partition Start End Size in sectors
1 P Linux 0 1 1 3915 254 63 62910477
2 * HPFS - NTFS 3916 0 1 19876 254 63 256413465
3 E extended 19877 0 1 38912 254 63 305813340
4 P Linux Swap 38157 1 1 38912 254 63 12145077
Space conflict between the following two partitions
3 E extended 19877 0 1 38912 254 63 305813340
4 P Linux Swap 38157 1 1 38912 254 63 12145077
X extended 19877 0 2 38156 254 63 293668199
5 L Linux 19877 2 1 38156 254 63 293668074


and this is the real layout of the disk:


Disk /dev/sda - 320 GB / 298 GiB - CHS 38913 255 63
Partition Start End Size in sectors
* Linux 0 1 1 3915 254 63 62910477
P HPFS - NTFS 3916 0 1 19876 254 63 256413465
L Linux 19877 2 1 38156 254 63 293668074
L Linux Swap 38157 1 1 38912 254 63 12145077


Its weird how this conflict works just fine

[gjoellee]

Apparently there is a rift in the bit continuum inside my hard drive:
148535
what happens if I press create? will it create a FAT file system with the size of 18446744067491 MB?

May I get your hard disk? :P

Take a look at launchpad.net for similar bugs, or make a new bug report.

[cent]

The problem occurs because Palimpset Disk Utility does not expect a currupted partition table. Which i apparantly have. I have written the correct MBR to the disk and I`ll se whether that fixes the problem

The SMART-data seams all fine except for one: Hardware ECC Recovered (Number of ECC on-the-fly errors) increased about 1,8 million times when I ran the short self-test and it's continuing to increase at about 10000/min

EDIT: according to wikipedia this might not mean anything at all