[CS-FSLUG] overlapping partitions

[Hilding Egestal]

Hello
Well, I think there is something wrong with the
partition table. I cannot use Norton Partition Magic
and have a look at the partitions. With gparted it is
said that nothing is allocated. QTparted offers a
possibility to make a new partition table. What would
happen with XP, using this offer?

At the same time both XP and Ubuntu are still working
without problems, so actually I can live with this,
but I am just wondering if there could any major
problems if I am not dealing with this now.


--- John Mark Clayton <clayton256 at gmail.com> skrev:

> Hello,
> 
> This message happened because qtpartd incountered a
> condition that
> should never exist.  Either there is a bug in
> qtparted that the authors
> might want to hear about or there is a problem with
> your hardrive
> partition table.  Did you follow the instructions
> for subitting a bug?
> Make sure you're using the latest stable version and
> if the message
> is reproduced send the text to the bug address
> stated.
> 
> I have used the gparted to create Windows and Linux
> partitions and
> would probably trust the qt version as they both use
> the same core
> code, libparted.  Many years ago I stopped trusting
> the Norton tools.
> Just my opinion.
> 
> Good luck,
> Mark
> 
> On 10/23/06, Hilding <he7316575 at yahoo.se> wrote:
> > Well, I don't if this is the proper forum to ask
> about "overlapping
> > partitions", but I'll do anyhow.
> > This is what is said by sudo qtparted:
> >
> > Error: Can't have overlapping partitions.
> > A bug has been detected in GNU Parted.  Refer to
> the web site of parted
> > http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html for
> more informations of
> > what could be useful for bug submitting!  Please
> email a bug report to
> > bug-parted at gnu.org containing at least the version
> (1.6.25.1) and the
> > following message:  Assertion (disk != NULL) at
> > ../../libparted/disk.c:1074 in function
> ped_disk_next_partition() failed.
> >
> >
> > I cannot understand, if this is due to a bug, or
> if I have used the
> > wrong partition program, or too many partition
> programs. (I started with
> > Norton Partition Magic)
> >
> > Well, what do You think? In Ubuntu, qtparted, it
> is possible to make a
> > new partition table. Would that be "dangerous" for
> my XP? I have dual
> > boot with GRUB.
> >
> > /Hilding in Sweden
> >
> >
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