[Bug 103794] Re: Cannot have overlapping partitions

[Phillip Susi]

This has been fixed from gparted's perspective, as it now correctly
shows the parted error messages rather than pretending that the disk is
empty.

Fixing parted to allow you to ignore the error and proceed with trying
to repair it is a feature that still has not been implemented upstream.

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Title:
  Cannot have overlapping partitions

Status in “parted” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: parted

  parted thinks I have overlapping partitions:

  sam at rattle:~$ sudo parted /dev/sda
  GNU Parted 1.7.1
  Using /dev/sda
  Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
  (parted) print all                                                        
  Error: Cannot have overlapping partitions.                   

  however, take a look, there is no overlap (apart from all the
  partitions within the extended partition but thats normal)

  sam at rattle:~$ sudo cfdisk -Ps /dev/sda
  Partition Table for /dev/sda

                 First       Last
   # Type       Sector      Sector   Offset    Length   Filesystem Type (ID) Flag
  -- ------- ----------- ----------- ------ ----------- -------------------- ----
   1 Primary           0    75778604     63    75778605 HPFS/NTFS (07)       Boot
   2 Primary    75778605    76951349      0     1172745 Linux (83)           None
   3 Primary    76951350   156296384      0    79345035 W95 Ext'd (LBA) (0F) None
   5 Logical    76951350   108197774    126#   31246425 Linux (83)           None
   6 Logical   108197775   110157704     63     1959930 Linux swap / So (82) None
   7 Logical   110157705   143364059     63    33206355 Linux (83)           None
     Logical   143364060   143364122*     0          63*Free Space           None
   4 Primary   143364123*  156296384      0    12932262*W95 FAT32 (0B)       None

  Whats REALLY scary is that gparted shows the disk as not being partioned at all! I coulda lost all my data.
  it should have passed on the error instead of assuming no partition.

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