[gentoo-user] Errors in nonexistent partitions

[Peter Humphrey]

Morning all,

My ~amd64 system uses partitions 1 to 18 on /dev/nvme0n1, and it has two SATA 
disks as well, for various purposes. Today, after I'd taken the system down 
for its weekly backup (I tar all the partitions to a USB disk) and started up 
again, invoking gparted to look around, libparted spat out a list of 
partitions from 19 to 128 which, it said, "have been written but we have been 
unable to inform the kernel of the change..."

I remerged gparted, parted, libparted and udisks, then booted another system 
and ran fsck -f on all the partitions from 4 to 18 - those that this system 
uses - and rebooted. No change - the same complaint from libparted.

I get a similar complaint about /dev/sda.

Those errors are repeated once.

Is this a terminal condition? I could repartition and restore from backup, but 
I hope someone can offer a clue before I resort to that.

-- 
Regards,
Peter.