Serious problem with the partitioning tool

[Marco Iannaccone]

Marco Iannaccone ha scritto:

> Serious problems with the partitioning tool.
>
> I installed Ubuntu 4.10 for the second time.
> The first time using normal installation, and... I got my primary 
> Windows XP partition totally corrupted. I thought it was grub's fault, 
> and so I reinstalled Ubuntu, after recovering someway the lost data, 
> this time using expert installation, so I could choose lilo.
>
> Well... I had problems this time, too!
> I lost one of the logical NTFS partitions contained in the same 
> extended partition when Ubuntu was installed, and the previous was was 
> corrupted (the BRs were no more correct, because two partitions 
> overlapped). I could fortunately make everything work well again 
> eliminating the ReiserFS and wap logical partitions I had created for 
> Ubuntu, and manually changed the boundaries of the "corrupted" NTFS 
> partitions using Ranish Partition Manager).
>
> I defenitely think Ubuntu installer ha a serious problem with the 
> partitioning tool (I've used Linux and othe OSs (even BeOS, QNX, 
> FreeBSD, etc..) for years, without NEVER having problems with the 
> existing partitions, and this is the first time i happens).
>
Anyway, I installed it for the third time, using again expert 
installation, but this time without deleting the previously created 
Linux partition, but only choosing to reformat it to ext3 (just for 
cleaning it after the previous install), and evetythink loooks ok... at 
least now.

So, it seems the problems with the partitioning tools are when deleteing 
and creating partitions (at least logical partitions inside an extended 
partition), not when formatting existent partitions.

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Marco Iannaccone
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