Re: GParted doesn't see Debian Live partition?

Thanks, but it seems that cfdisk doesn't understand this partition structure properly either:

    Device      Boot   Start        End    Sectors    Size Id Type
    /dev/sdd1   *          0    3793663    3793664    1.8G 0 Empty
    /dev/sdd2           2136       2967        832    416K ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32)
>> Free space          4096 246480895 246476800 117.5G

If /dev/sdd1 is 3793664 sectors then there is no way that free space starts at sector 4096. And if I try to create new partition there, cfdisk doesn't allow that and gives error "Start sector 4096 out of range."

On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 7:44 PM, Tom & Karen Pino <metalsmith@rangeweb.net> wrote:

You have a 'Hidden HPFF/NTFS' partition for your main partition.

Gparted is a fine partition tool for general work but don't use it for this sort of job.

Use cfdisk instead.
# cfdisk /dev/sdd

On 06/24/2017 09:08 AM, Markus Laire wrote:

I just put debian-live-9.0.1-amd64-xfce.iso to 128 GB USB-stick and
then tried to check the created partitions on a computer running
Debian Strech.

When I check partitions with "cat /proc/partitions" I get:
   8       48  123240448 sdd
   8       49    1896832 sdd1
   8       50        416 sdd2

So there is one main partition and one tiny one.

But if I start GParted to modify partitions, it doesn't see main
partition at all, only the tiny one. GParted claims that USB-stick
has:
- 1.04 MiB unallocated space
- 416 KiB fat16 partition
- 117.53 GiB unallocated space

Why GParted doesn't see the main partition? I want to create another
partition for persistence, but I'm afraid GParted will destroy main
partition (which it doesn't see) if I try to do any changes.

Markus Laire
https://www.MarkusLaire.com