[OpenIndiana-discuss] GParted crashed

[Judah Richardson]

The last time I tried using it (sometime in 2020) it crashed on me too. I
just use my Debian machine's GParted instead.

On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 2:26 AM Hung Nguyen Gia via openindiana-discuss <
openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:

> 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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