[Bug 358951] Re: 3.8.x that comes with Ubuntu 8.10 LiveCD kills fat32 partitions on USB HDD

[anatoly techtonik]

I think GParted should have your own integration/functional test for
such kind of critical functionality. The testing process requires too
much time and energy from me to be repeated. I am unlikely to use
GParted for repeated resizing of partitions anymore.

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Title:
  3.8.x that comes with Ubuntu 8.10 LiveCD kills fat32 partitions on USB
  HDD

Status in “gparted” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: gparted

  I can't be more disappointed in Ubuntu + GParted than I am now. I've
  just ruined my backup USB HDD with GParted that was run under Ubuntu
  8.10 Live. Of course, it warned to backup data, but only because it
  was unreal to backup my HDD I decided to use GParted resize instead of
  backup and format.

  I had two FAT32 partitions on USB HDD and wanted to shrink the first
  one to format and install Ubuntu on it. This required moving
  information from this partition to the second. As I didn't have enough
  free space I have to repeat resize and move operation several times. I
  made only one operation at a time - never chained them. On the fourth
  resize some strange sign appeared in front of my first partition.
  After a check run the partition could not be mounted. When I attached
  HDD to another system, I've found that all my files were lost. Disk
  label was garbaged although partition types still were FAT32. I do not
  know how did it happen, perhaps I've run chkdsk fix fix parameter
  explicitly from Windows rescue CD, but it crunched first partition
  (bootex.log is attached) and created FOUND.000 folder that now
  contains a salad from filexxxx.chk chunks. =/

  My second partition now contains "sictaged.ito" entry without any
  means to access it contents. I do not know why the second partition
  was messed too and more importantly - how to restore it back? I
  suspect that I run "check" command which killed FAT32 tables.

  That was strange (besides extremely long time to scan drives after
  each operation) is that after USB HDD partition was unmounted from
  GParted, Ubuntu still popped up that disk window. Even if so, it is
  unclear how could unmounted partition result in FAT32 tables being
  overwritten in both FAT32 partitions.

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