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

[Mattia Rizzolo]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 11:52:32AM -0600, Curtis Gedak wrote:
> 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).

well, that's really not a reason to crash like that! ;)

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

yes, I could recreate the swap partition.  now, I'm not in hurry to
havev gparted working, so I'm just gonna postpone this till I either
need it, or if you need a confirmation that's the issue (but then I
won't be able to test a fix, etc).

> 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.

Yeah, I have a vague idea about partitions and /etc/fstab ;)

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