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From: Adam Carter <adamcarter3@×××××.com>
To: Gentoo User <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Errors in nonexistent partitions
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2020 23:36:00
Message-Id: CAC=wYCE1YXQNV267Qt1Ra8ApiKDy4t4XNsE7G_xUtCFAik6MRA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Errors in nonexistent partitions by Peter Humphrey
1 On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 8:17 PM Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
2 wrote:
3
4 > Morning all,
5 >
6 > My ~amd64 system uses partitions 1 to 18 on /dev/nvme0n1, and it has two
7 > SATA
8 > disks as well, for various purposes. Today, after I'd taken the system
9 > down
10 > for its weekly backup (I tar all the partitions to a USB disk) and started
11 > up
12 > again, invoking gparted to look around, libparted spat out a list of
13 > partitions from 19 to 128 which, it said, "have been written but we have
14 > been
15 > unable to inform the kernel of the change..."
16 >
17 > I remerged gparted, parted, libparted and udisks, then booted another
18 > system
19 > and ran fsck -f on all the partitions from 4 to 18 - those that this
20 > system
21 > uses - and rebooted. No change - the same complaint from libparted.
22 >
23
24 I would start by dd ing an image of the entire disk, then making a copy to
25 work on (keeping the original image as a backup) then running testdisk
26 against the working copy image to see what it reports.