Re: Reach ext3 partitions when cfdisk gives error about those

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 13:51:46 +0000, Csanyi Pal wrote:

> Camaleón writes:
> 
>> On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 07:08:31 +0000, Csanyi Pal wrote:
>>
>>> Debian Squeeze uses UUID's to mount it's partitions, but Debian SID
>>> didn't so I think that cause that that I can't reach partitions of
>>> Debian Squeeze from Debian SID.
>>
>> Quite strange.
> 
> I think that that I can run cfdisk on /dev/sda, but can't run cfdisk on
> /dev/sdb where those ext3 filesystems are, so mybe this is not an UUID
> issue but a partition problem.

Then start from the beginning with the problem :-)

First, what has "/dev/sdb" currently installed? Data, system, nothing...?

Try with "fdisk -l /dev/sdb" and put here the output.
 
> I have run on /dev/sdb long time ago Gparted, and after that I installed
> the Debian Squeeze system on those partitions (yes, not on one but on
> more than one partitions).

Ah, okay, there is a system running already on it...
> 
> When I try to run cfdisk on /dev/sdb 

What is your goal for running cfdisk, what do you want to do?

> I get error message: FATAL ERROR:
> Bad logical partition 6: enlarged logical partitions overlap

(...)

It could be this bug :-?

cfdisk complains unjustly about overlapping partitions
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=464377

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón