Re: parted refuses to create partition in free space

[Sepero]

I just finished compiling parted v3.1 and I get the exact same result again

~/parted-3.1$ sudo parted /dev/sda unit B mkpart l ntfs 1048576 16779313151
Warning: You requested a partition from 1048576B to 16779312640B.
The closest location we can manage is 57671681024B to 57671681024B.
Is this still acceptable to you?
Yes/No? n

I'm kind of lost now (and so is my filesystem). I'm not really sure
what to do to get my filesystem back.

PS.
It would seem very convenient right now if parted could take a --force argument.


On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Sepero <address@hidden> wrote:
> I'm trying to recreate a partition I deleted, but parted refuses, and
> instead offers me some bogus location. I'm using the same size
> parameters the partition had before it was deleted.
>
> # parted /dev/sda unit B print free
> Model: ATA WDC WD10EACS-00D (scsi)
> Disk /dev/sda: 1000204886016B
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
> Partition Table: msdos
>
> Number  Start          End             Size           Type      File
> system     Flags
>        32256B         16779571199B    16779538944B             Free Space
> 2      16779571200B   28311413759B    11531842560B   primary   ext4
>        28311413760B   28311551999B    138240B                  Free Space
> 3      28311552000B   57671679999B    29360128000B   primary   ntfs
> 4      57671680000B   1000204886015B  942533206016B  extended
>         lba
> 5      57672728576B   501709012991B   444036284416B  logical   ext2
>        501709012992B  501709178879B   165888B                  Free Space
> 6      501710061568B  507999420415B   6289358848B    logical   linux-swap(v1)
> 8      507999945728B  738061930495B   230061984768B  logical   ext4
> 7      738061931008B  993915526143B   255853595136B  logical
> 9      993915526656B  1000204886015B  6289359360B    logical   linux-swap(v1)
>
>
> # parted /dev/sda unit B mkpart l ntfs 1048576 16779313151
> Warning: You requested a partition from 1048576B to 16779312640B.
> The closest location we can manage is 57671681024B to 57671681024B.
> Is this still acceptable to you?
> Yes/No? n
>
>
>
>
> Here is some diagnostic output that I hope will be useful.
>
> # parted /dev/sda unit s print
> Model: ATA WDC WD10EACS-00D (scsi)
> Disk /dev/sda: 1953525168s
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
> Partition Table: msdos
>
> Number  Start        End          Size         Type      File system     Flags
>  2      32772600s    55295729s    22523130s    primary   ext4
>  3      55296000s    112639999s   57344000s    primary   ntfs
>  4      112640000s   1953525167s  1840885168s  extended                  lba
>  5      112642048s   979900415s   867258368s   logical   ext2
>  6      979902464s   992186367s   12283904s    logical   linux-swap(v1)
>  8      992187394s   1441527207s  449339814s   logical   ext4
>  7      1441527209s  1941241261s  499714053s   logical
>  9      1941241263s  1953525167s  12283905s    logical   linux-swap(v1)
>
>
> # parted -v
> parted (GNU parted) 2.3
> Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
>
> Written by 
> <http://git.debian.org/?p=parted/parted.git;a=blob_plain;f=AUTHORS>.
>
>
> Using gparted will allow me to create a partition in the free space,
> but I cannot safely recreate the partition with the units that gparted
> uses (because it may destroy data on the lost filesystem)