

dev/sda8 : 23GB - ext4, /, root of ubuntu 9.10 As far as I remember, here are my former partitions:

Gparted gives me no error message : but if you look closely at my former screenshot : you will notice something weird at the end of the disk: it says there is a void partition with 18446744074GB freeĪs for the steps I used, there were many. I used Gparted for all the complex operations like deleting, creating, shrinking, or expanding partitions, but I also made two reinstallations of Ubuntu during the process, and I let the installation program (I think it is ubiquity-frontend-gtk) format some partitions as its will. Extreme caution is required while doing this to ensure that you do not lose your data. Then restore the data to /dev/sda5.Ģ) Use fdisk to remove /dev/sda5 and /dev/sda4, and then carefully recreate these partitions using the correct sector values. You should then be able to use either Parted or GParted to recreate the extended partition (/dev/sda4) and your logical partition (/dev/sda5). I can think of two ways to do this:ġ) Backup /dev/sda5, then delete /dev/sda4 and /dev/sda5 using a tool such as fdisk.

This error in the partition table will need to be fixed before GParted or parted can edit the partition table. Since GParted uses the library libparted from the parted project, GParted also has this limitation. Parted does not permit editing of invalid partition tables. It looks like the extended partition (/dev/sda4) goes beyond the end of the disk.ġ60,842,779 end sector of /dev/sda4 (this is not possible)
