Ubuntu :: GParted - Hard Drive Is Not Partitioned And Has An Unrecognised Partition Table ?

Jul 31, 2010

GParted tells me my hard drive is not partitioned and has an unrecognised partition table, but I know it has because i'm using it now to write this on here, and fdisk shows the following:

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Anyone know of anyreason GParted may not be working or can offer an alternative to create a partition?

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home@home-laptop:~$ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for home:
Warning: ignoring extra data in partition table 7
Warning: ignoring extra data in partition table 7
Warning: ignoring extra data in partition table 7

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sda4, primary ext2, /boot, 47MB
extended sda2{
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8MB gap

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Is the problem still in bad begining of the partition saved or data are already broken ? If the first is there any mount option to really not touch filesystem ? Because I've read even if we mount readonly there are some options saved to disk (as last mount time etc) and I'm aware it could destroy entrie filesystem.

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[root# gparted
libparted : 1.9.0

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Code:
/
/home
swap

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Code:
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Code:
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F14 xfce
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