[Parted-maintainers] Bug#819488: gparted crash with a libparted backtrace

[Curtis Gedak]

On 16-04-11 11:42 AM, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> 
> Device     Boot      Start        End    Sectors   Size Id Type
> /dev/sda1  *          2046 1953523711 1953521666 931.5G  5 Extended
> /dev/sda5             2048  999999487  999997440 476.9G 83 Linux
> /dev/sda6       1873524736 1933524991   60000256  28.6G 83 Linux
> /dev/sda7       1933524992 1953523711   19998720   9.5G 82 Linux swap / Solaris
> 
> Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary.


If I recall correctly, libparted was not able to handle when there was
only one unallocated sector between logical partitions (it expects at
least two).

In your situation there is only one unallocated sector between the end
of sda6 and the start of sda7.  The unallocated sector is used to store
the Extended Boot Record for a logical partition.

To work around the problem you might consider deleting the Linux Swap
sda7 partition using fdisk.

Next you could recreate the Linux Swap making sure to leave at least two
unallocated sectors after sda6.  Then you would need to ensure that the
UUID for the Linux Swap matched the value in /etc/fstab so that it would
automatically be mounted at boot time.

Regards,
Curtis