I followed Somogyi Ádám's solution and it did work. However I had to reinstall grub(!) and I'm having all sorts of strange error messages:
sudo gparted Error informing the kernel about modifications to partition /dev/sda2 -- Device or resource busy. This means Linux won't know about any changes you made to /dev/sda2 until you reboot -- so you shouldn't mount it or use it in any way before rebooting. Failed to add partition 2 (Device or resource busy) palimpset (palimpsest:2589): libgdu-WARNING **: Partition /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sda5 is a logical partition but no extended partition exists sudo sfdisk -d Warning: extended partition does not start at a cylinder boundary. DOS and Linux will interpret the contents differently. # partition table of /dev/sda unit: sectors /dev/sda1 : start= 63, size= 28675962, Id= 7, bootable /dev/sda2 : start= 28676150, size= 33254425, Id= f /dev/sda3 : start= 61930575, size=524152755, Id= 7 /dev/sda4 : start= 0, size= 0, Id= 0 /dev/sda5 : start= 28676151, size= 1991934, Id=82 /dev/sda6 : start= 30668148, size= 31262427, Id=83 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-disk-utility in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/571038 Title: palimpsest crash with libgdu:ERROR:gdu-pool.c:2369:device_recurse: assertion failed: (depth < 100) -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
