Re: [gentoo-user] Errors in nonexistent partitions

[Peter Humphrey]

On Monday, 14 September 2020 09:04:04 BST J. Roeleveld wrote:
> On Monday, September 14, 2020 9:48:07 AM CEST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > On Sunday, 13 September 2020 17:05:22 BST Wols Lists wrote:
> > > On 13/09/20 13:26, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > Just before this started, I booted Win-10 on /dev/sdb and ran its update
> > process.
> >
> > I don't use it for anything at the moment, just keeping it up to
> > date in case I ever do. I do this most weeks, but is it possible that
> > Win-10 tampered in some way that it hasn't before? I'm seeing these errors
> > on /dev/ sda (which does have an NTFS partition) and /dev/nvme0n1 (which
> > does not), but not on /dev/sdb.
>
> This right here can be the problem.
> My laptop is dual-boot and I had a few times my boot-process was killed
> because MS Windows 10 likes to, randomly, add additional partitions for it's
> restore stuff. It will happily resize existing partitions to make room.
>
> If the partition layout is not something MS considers "normal", you get into
> these issues.

Hm. I'm wondering why it might fiddle with the two disks it's not installed on, 
but not the one it is. Also, why damage the partition tables without adding, 
deleting or resizing any partitions? And Windows must be able to recognise 
ext4 by now, surely?

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Regards,
Peter.