Public bug reported:
I tried to install Xubuntu dapper the other day from the net installer
images over PXE to my Thinkpad X24 with a 40GB HD. It failed. The
reason seems to be that for some reason parted does not seem to be able
to handle my partition layout. There was an error message to that
effect "This ext2 filesystem has a rather strange layout! Parted can't
resize this (yet)." After that, it could not go on.
Two things. I cannot see how my partition layout is strange. I also
set up and formatted my partitions beforehand. No need for parted in
this case and therefore I believe parted bailing out should not bring
the installation process to a complete halt. I reproduced this error of
parted while being booted via Knoppix so I can attach some output here.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] fdisk -l
Platte /dev/hda: 40.0 GByte, 40007761920 Byte
16 Köpfe, 63 Sektoren/Spuren, 77520 Zylinder
Einheiten = Zylinder von 1008 × 512 = 516096 Bytes
Gerät boot. Anfang Ende Blöcke Id System
/dev/hda1 1 1000 503968+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 7752 8236 244440 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 8722 76070 33943896 5 Erweiterte
/dev/hda5 8722 12597 1953472+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 12598 13567 488848+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 13568 71697 29297488+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda8 71698 72194 250456+ 82 Linux Swap / Solaris
/dev/hda9 * 72195 76070 1953472+ 83 Linux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] parted /dev/hda
GNU Parted 1.6.9
Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
Using /UNIONFS/dev/hda
Information: The operating system thinks the geometry on /UNIONFS/dev/hda is
77520/16/63. Therefore, cylinder 1024 ends at 503,999M.
(parted) print
Disk geometry for /UNIONFS/dev/hda: 0.000-38154,375 megabytes
Disk label type: msdos
Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags
1 0,031 492,187 primary ext2
2 3814,945 4053,656 primary ext2
4 4292,367 37440,703 extended
5 4292,398 6200,085 logical ext2
6 6200,117 6677,507 logical ext2
7 6677,539 35288,367 logical ext2
8 35288,398 35532,984 logical linux-swap
9 35533,015 37440,703 logical ext2 boot
(parted) quit
Information: Don't forget to update /etc/fstab, if necessary.
If I start qtparted on Knoppix to move hda2 a bit up front, I also get
this "This ext2 filesystem has a rather strange layout! Parted can't
resize this (yet)." error message.
** Affects: parted (upstream)
Importance: Untriaged
Status: Unconfirmed
** Affects: parted (Ubuntu)
Importance: Untriaged
Status: Unconfirmed
** Also affects: parted (upstream)
Importance: Untriaged
Status: Unconfirmed
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parted thinks my partition layout is strange
https://launchpad.net/bugs/59620
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