Can't Format Partition

Nathan Bahn nathan.bahn at gmail.com
Wed Feb 23 22:33:22 UTC 2011


I get the below:

Error creating partition: helper exited with exit code 1: In
part_add_partition: device_file=/dev/sda, start=12642680832,
size=2119434240, type=0x82
Entering MS-DOS parser (offset=0, size=500107862016)
MSDOS_MAGIC found
looking at part 0 (offset 1048576, size 10486808576, type 0x83)
new part entry
looking at part 1 (offset 10488904704, size 489617884160, type 0x0f)
Entering MS-DOS extended parser (offset=10488904704, size=489617884160)
readfrom = 10488904704
MSDOS_MAGIC found
readfrom = 34118461440
No MSDOS_MAGIC found
Exiting MS-DOS extended parser
looking at part 2 (offset 0, size 0, type 0x00)
new part entry
looking at part 3 (offset 0, size 0, type 0x00)
new part entry
Exiting MS-DOS parser
MSDOS partition table detected
containing partition table scheme = 1
got it
Error: Invalid partition table on /dev/sda -- wrong signature 0.
ped_disk_new() failed


I'm using Gparted (G.U.I.) on a 10.10 GNOME O.S.  I'm attempting to format a
part of an unformatted partition (3 of 4) as a swap.  I want to do this
because I want to enlarge the first partition, which is where the O.S. is
located.  As I understand it, a formatted partition must be located next to
an unformatted partition in order to expand into it.  Because the second
partition partition is a swap, I am attempting to format a part of the
unformatted third partition as a swap so that I can unformat the second
partition and then expand the first (O.S.) partition into it.  If my
information/understanding is incorrect, then where can I find information on
how partitions work?

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