[Bug 434463] Re: GParted destroyed my partition table: "Invalid partition table on /dev/sda -- wrong signature 0."
Phillip Susi
psusi at cfl.rr.com
Thu Jan 5 15:15:46 UTC 2012
** Changed in: gparted (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Fix Released
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Title:
GParted destroyed my partition table: "Invalid partition table on
/dev/sda -- wrong signature 0."
Status in “gparted” package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Bug description:
Binary package hint: gparted
I used to have the following partition table:
ext3 /dev/sda1 (mounted at /)
extended
- swap /dev/sda5
- ext3 /dev/sda6 (mounted at /home)
The /dev/sda1 was too small for me though, so to increase it I used
GParted on a Jaunty LiveCD to queue the following:
- Shrink /dev/sda6 to half size, creating space on the left.
- Move swap to the right.
- Shrink extended to fit, creating space on the left.
- Grow /dev/sda1 to fill.
GParted successfully did step 1, but at the end of step 2 it had a
fatal error:
Invalid partition table on /dev/sda -- wrong signature 0.
After closing the dialog, the entire partition table is now gone -- it
all shows as "unallocated space".
GParted's saved report is attached.
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 9.04
Release: 9.04
$ apt-cache policy gparted
gparted:
Installed: 0.4.3-0ubuntu1
Candidate: 0.4.3-0ubuntu1
Version table:
*** 0.4.3-0ubuntu1 0
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
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