Tynach
October 9th, 2010, 10:55 PM
RedHat Disk Utility shows all my partitions intact, and I was able to delete partitions fine.
However, I was wanting to delete 2 logical partitions inside an extended partition, and put two different partitions in their place.
I deleted them, which worked fine... But I was getting this error when I tried to create one:
Error creating partition: helper exited with exit code 1: In part_add_partition: device_file=/dev/sda, start=435684376576, size=21477982208, type=0x83
Entering MS-DOS parser (offset=0, size=500107862016)
MSDOS_MAGIC found
looking at part 0 (offset 1048576, size 104857600, type 0x07)
new part entry
looking at part 1 (offset 105906176, size 388331732992, type 0x07)
new part entry
looking at part 2 (offset 388438687232, size 111658664448, type 0x0f)
Entering MS-DOS extended parser (offset=388438687232, size=111658664448)
readfrom = 388438687232
MSDOS_MAGIC found
readfrom = 392732606464
MSDOS_MAGIC found
readfrom = 414208650240
MSDOS_MAGIC found
readfrom = 457161062400
MSDOS_MAGIC found
readfrom = 435684856320
No MSDOS_MAGIC found
Exiting MS-DOS extended parser
looking at part 3 (offset 0, size 0, type 0x00)
new part entry
Exiting MS-DOS parser
MSDOS partition table detected
containing partition table scheme = 1
got it
Error: Invalid partition table on /dev/sda -- wrong signature 0.
ped_disk_new() failed
Now, I can no longer delete partitions in it.
So, I went to GParted.
Guess what? It claims there are NO partitions on the entire drive. At all.
Within Ubuntu, I am able to mount the partitions that are there.
Any help? I hopefully can have this before 5:00 tonight (midnight UTC), as the partitions are for backing up data from my Ubuntu installation for upgrade purposes...
My partitioning scheme (according to RedHat Disk Utility):
sda:
sda1 - 105 MB NTFS (System Reserved) {This is part of Win7}
sda2 - 388 GB NTFS (Win7)
sda3 - 112 GB Extended
sda5 - 4.3 GB Swap
sda6 - 21 GB Ext3 (SuSE)
sda7 - 21 GB Ext3 (CentOS)
- 21 GB Free (used to be Fedora, deleted it for backup)
sda8 - 21 GB Ext3 (Debian)
- 21 GB Free (used to be PCLinuxOS, deleted it for backup)
sdc:
sdc1 - 192 GB Ext4 (Ubuntu)
sdc2 - 8.2 GB Extended
8.2 GB Free (used to be swap, don't know what happened to my swap there)
As you can see, I had quite a few Linux distros installed... They all worked too. But I deleted my two least favorite, for the purposes of creating partitions to backup my data on. Ignore the absense of sdb, my laptop harddrive is currently plugged into my desktop, so it shows up too.
However, I was wanting to delete 2 logical partitions inside an extended partition, and put two different partitions in their place.
I deleted them, which worked fine... But I was getting this error when I tried to create one:
Error creating partition: helper exited with exit code 1: In part_add_partition: device_file=/dev/sda, start=435684376576, size=21477982208, type=0x83
Entering MS-DOS parser (offset=0, size=500107862016)
MSDOS_MAGIC found
looking at part 0 (offset 1048576, size 104857600, type 0x07)
new part entry
looking at part 1 (offset 105906176, size 388331732992, type 0x07)
new part entry
looking at part 2 (offset 388438687232, size 111658664448, type 0x0f)
Entering MS-DOS extended parser (offset=388438687232, size=111658664448)
readfrom = 388438687232
MSDOS_MAGIC found
readfrom = 392732606464
MSDOS_MAGIC found
readfrom = 414208650240
MSDOS_MAGIC found
readfrom = 457161062400
MSDOS_MAGIC found
readfrom = 435684856320
No MSDOS_MAGIC found
Exiting MS-DOS extended parser
looking at part 3 (offset 0, size 0, type 0x00)
new part entry
Exiting MS-DOS parser
MSDOS partition table detected
containing partition table scheme = 1
got it
Error: Invalid partition table on /dev/sda -- wrong signature 0.
ped_disk_new() failed
Now, I can no longer delete partitions in it.
So, I went to GParted.
Guess what? It claims there are NO partitions on the entire drive. At all.
Within Ubuntu, I am able to mount the partitions that are there.
Any help? I hopefully can have this before 5:00 tonight (midnight UTC), as the partitions are for backing up data from my Ubuntu installation for upgrade purposes...
My partitioning scheme (according to RedHat Disk Utility):
sda:
sda1 - 105 MB NTFS (System Reserved) {This is part of Win7}
sda2 - 388 GB NTFS (Win7)
sda3 - 112 GB Extended
sda5 - 4.3 GB Swap
sda6 - 21 GB Ext3 (SuSE)
sda7 - 21 GB Ext3 (CentOS)
- 21 GB Free (used to be Fedora, deleted it for backup)
sda8 - 21 GB Ext3 (Debian)
- 21 GB Free (used to be PCLinuxOS, deleted it for backup)
sdc:
sdc1 - 192 GB Ext4 (Ubuntu)
sdc2 - 8.2 GB Extended
8.2 GB Free (used to be swap, don't know what happened to my swap there)
As you can see, I had quite a few Linux distros installed... They all worked too. But I deleted my two least favorite, for the purposes of creating partitions to backup my data on. Ignore the absense of sdb, my laptop harddrive is currently plugged into my desktop, so it shows up too.