strange problem with gparted.

[bff7755a at yandex.ru]

Здравствуйте, Joep.

Вы писали 8 февраля 2011 г., 17:21:59:

> On 08/02/11 14:23, Rashkae wrote:
>> 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)
>>

> Rashkae,
> Thanks for your speedy reply.
> I did what you asked but the only "error" I got was:
> joep at Laguna-new:~/Utube/utubeqt$ sudo gparted
> ======================
> libparted : 2.2
> ======================
> Unable to satisfy all constraints on the partition

> and dmesg gave no error. It doen't look like an error but more that 
> something in the disk layout is not known by gparted.
> An external disk (dev/sdb), also of 1 Tb. is seen without a problem.
> Both disks as Samsung and I have no problem whatsoever with them.
> Joep

Have you tried to write to this mailing lists:

parted-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
bug-parted at gnu.org

?