State of the partition table after the error and before reboot, as seen by sfdisk, fdisk, and parted:
$ sudo sfdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 9729 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track Warning: extended partition does not start at a cylinder boundary. DOS and Linux will interpret the contents differently. sfdisk: ERROR: sector 98542710 does not have an msdos signature Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0 Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 0+ 1823- 1824- 14648437+ 83 Linux /dev/sda2 1823+ 9729- 7906- 63502306 5 Extended /dev/sda3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty /dev/sda4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty /dev/sda5 1823+ 2538- 716- 5744140 83 Linux $ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda omitting empty partition (6) Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x0004a071 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 1824 14648437+ 83 Linux /dev/sda2 1824 9730 63502306 5 Extended /dev/sda5 1824 2539 5744140 83 Linux $ sudo parted -l /dev/sda Error: Invalid partition table on /dev/sda -- wrong signature 0. Ignore/Cancel? Ignore Model: ATA INTEL SSDSA2M080 (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 80.0GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 512B 15.0GB 15.0GB primary ext3 boot 2 15.0GB 80.0GB 65.0GB extended 5 15.0GB 20.9GB 5882MB logical linux-swap Warning: Unable to open /dev/sr0 read-write (Read-only file system). /dev/sr0 has been opened read-only. Error: /dev/sr0: unrecognised disk label $ -- GParted destroyed my partition table: "Invalid partition table on /dev/sda -- wrong signature 0." https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/434463 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
