[OpenIndiana-discuss] GParted crashed

[Hung Nguyen Gia]

I'm out of patient with this format stuff.

I ended up use GParted on Linux to fix the partition table.

But guess what? The format command on OI still doesn't see the extended space.

There is a command called 'expand' to expand the label to whole partition.

I tried this expand command. And guest what? It said there is nothing to expand!

What a piece of sh8t! How misleading! What this 'expand' command actually do?

The 'modify' command even give insane result where a partition table is full of zeros, zero cylinders, zero, everything zero!

Of course I'm not that stupid to accept these results. I always typed no.

BTW, what an insane default setting to defaulting all of the answer to be [yes]!

Too disappointed I'm not bother to try other 'commands' of the horrible 'format'.

But I did tried to run format the last time to see if I have any lucks.

And guest what? After I selected my usb stick it just printed [disk formatted] and the whole system hung.

I have to cold reset again to boot to Linux to post this email.

What a terrible experience! I give up. Good luck with your OS. I'm out.




---- On Tue, 26 Jan 2021 14:49:04 +0700 Hung Nguyen Gia via openindiana-discuss <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote ----

 > GParted crashed immediately when being started on a live usb system and core dumped. 
 >  
 > I could sure the core file is of gparted since sudo file core reported it's of 'gpartedbin' 
 >  
 > Trying running from terminal with sudo gparted Segmentation fault immediately. 
 >  
 > Don't ask me to upload the core file to you. The feeling of mine when this happened is... if I could smash the monitor, I would. 
 >  
 > Jim, I said with you I don't want to be spoonfed. But please spoonfed me this time, just this time, please. I don't want to deal with the horrible format command. 
 >  
 > format -e indeed showed the usb stick. But I have no idea how to accomplish my goal. 
 >  
 > The live usb image is 1.9G in size and my stick is 16G in size. 
 >  
 > I want to fix the partition table, so it fully recognize my usb as 16G and I want to resize the root partition (slice 2) to extend it to fill the remaining space. 
 >  
 > Without fixing the partition table, format doesn't see the device's size as 16G but just 1.9G. 
 >  
 > Of course, I could fix the partition table from GParted on Linux, but I don't know if it would caused any corruption because of the incompatibility between the two systems. 
 >  
 > I know how to use format the most basic way, mainly to prepare the disk to install Tribblix to UFS and setup the swap partition. 
 >  
 > I have no deeper experience with it so far. 
 >  
 > Researching requires me to read the Oracle manual, which IMHO is always long and boring to read compared to what of Linux and FreeBSD. 
 >  
 > This time I tried to type format after selected my usb stick and guess what? My live system hung immediately and I have to cold reset it to boot back to Linux. Please help. 
 >  
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