On Mon, Apr 01, 2019 at 08:08:33PM +0000, Arno - wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not sure if this is a bug or a wrong partition table or something else. > Please read and can you give me advise what to do next? > > I'm resizing and moving partitions. > First when starting gparted (systemrescuecd 5.3.2) I got > > Assertion (metadata_length > 0) [....] in function > add_logical_part_metadata() failed. > > and gparted doesn't start > > Upgraded to systemrescuecd 6.0.2 > gparted (0.33.0) starts but I can't resize the last partition. > > parted (version 3.2, option p) displays > > Error: Can't have the end before the start! (start sector=83890176 length=0) > > fdisk -lu is ok as far as I can see. Starts and ends of partitions are > ascending. All data accesible.
extended partitions are supposed to have at least 1 sector for metadata. Some partitioning tools don't enforce this, and parted does so you get an assertion until you recreate the partition layout. -- Brian C. Lane (PST8PDT)