Serious problem with the partitioning tool

[Nils Imb]

Imb writes:
And I thought it was my fault. The first time (installation) it
corrupted a FAT32 partition (filesystem?). The second time I had no
problems. Maybe because I have reformatted and recreated the partition.
I hope it is really a bug and not a method forcing the user to delete
another bug.

CU

Am Montag, den 13.12.2004, 12:50 +0100 schrieb Marco Iannaccone:
> Serious problems with the partitioning tool.
> 
> I installed Ubuntu 4.10 for the second time.
> The first time using normal installation, and... I got my primary 
> Windows XP partition totally corrupted. I thought it was grub's fault, 
> and so I reinstalled Ubuntu, after recovering someway the lost data, 
> this time using expert installation, so I could choose lilo.
> 
> Well... I had problems this time, too!
> I lost one of the logical NTFS partitions contained in the same extended 
> partition when Ubuntu was installed, and the previous was was corrupted 
> (the BRs were no more correct, because two partitions overlapped). I 
> could fortunately make everything work well again eliminating the 
> ReiserFS and wap logical partitions I had created for Ubuntu, and 
> manually changed the boundaries of the "corrupted" NTFS partitions using 
> Ranish Partition Manager).
> 
> I defenitely think Ubuntu installer ha a serious problem with the 
> partitioning tool (I've used Linux and othe OSs (even BeOS, QNX, 
> FreeBSD, etc..) for years, without NEVER having problems with the 
> existing partitions, and this is the first time i happens).
> 
> -- 
> Marco Iannaccone
> marciann at email.it