strange problem with gparted.

[Rashkae]

On 11-02-08 06:58 AM, Joep L. Blom wrote:
> I have a strange problem with gparted.
> fdisk tells me:
> Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0xb419b419
>
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *           1        6374    51199123+  83  Linux
> /dev/sda2            6375      121601   925560877+   5  Extended
> /dev/sda5            6375       32224   207640093+  83  Linux
> /dev/sda6           32225       33244     8193150   82  Linux swap / 
> Solaris
> /dev/sda7           33245       46299   104864256   83  Linux
>
> Well this looks normal.
> However gparted tells me:
> /dev/sda (931,52 GiB)
> Partition    File system     Size
> Unallocated    unallocated    931,5
>
> I don't understand that. Is that a bug in gparted?
> OS Ubuntu Lucid
> Linux Laguna-new 2.6.32-26-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Wed Nov 24 10:14:11 
> UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux.
> Somebody has a clue?
> Joep
>
>
If there is such a disastrous bug in gparted, it's certainly one I've 
never heard of before.  I would suggest, just to start, that you try 
running sudo gparted from the command line to see if there are any 
strange error messages to the console output.  I would then follow that 
up with dmesg to see if there were any errors reported by the kernel 
while gparted was running (such as a an IO failure on /dev/sda, which 
might be caused by a bad sector somewhere that gparted scans)