Package: gnome-disk-utility Version: 2.28.1-2 Severity: normal Trying to delete the only big partition on a 640GB disk with gnome-disk-utility, the following error message is displayed. However, it works well with fdisk:
Error erasing: helper exited with exit code 1: In part_del_partition: device_file=/dev/sdb, offset=64512 Entering MS-DOS parser (offset=0, size=640135028736) MSDOS_MAGIC found looking at part 0 (offset 64512, size 640124126208, type 0x83) new part entry looking at part 1 (offset 0, size 0, type 0x00) new part entry looking at part 2 (offset 0, size 0, type 0x00) new part entry looking at part 3 (offset 0, size 0, type 0x00) new part entry Exiting MS-DOS parser MSDOS partition table detected Warning: Device /dev/sdb has a logical sector size of 1024. Not all parts of GNU Parted support this at the moment, and the working code is HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL. got it Error: Can't have a partition outside the disk! ped_disk_new() failed -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-pentiumm-preempt (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages gnome-disk-utility depends on: ii devicekit-disks 009-2 abstraction for enumerating block ii libatasmart4 0.17-1 ATA S.M.A.R.T. reading and parsing ii libatk1.0-0 1.28.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libc6 2.10.2-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcairo2 1.8.8-2 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.20-2 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.84-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-2 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.3.11-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgdu-gtk0 2.28.1-2 GTK+ standard dialog library for l ii libgdu0 2.28.1-2 GObject based Disk Utility Library ii libglib2.0-0 2.22.4-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgnome-keyring0 2.28.2-1 GNOME keyring services library ii libgtk2.0-0 2.18.6-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libnautilus-extension1 2.28.4-1 libraries for nautilus components ii libnotify1 [libnotify1- 0.4.5-1 sends desktop notifications to a n ii libpango1.0-0 1.26.2-1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libunique-1.0-0 1.1.6-1 Library for writing single instanc ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime gnome-disk-utility recommends no packages. gnome-disk-utility suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org