#570940 gnome-disk-utility: Partition deletion fails on a 640GB disk

Package:
gnome-disk-utility
Source:
gnome-disk-utility
Description:
manage and configure disk drives and media
Submitter:
Kjö Hansi Glaz
Date:
2010-02-22 12:33:04 UTC
Severity:
normal
#570940#5
Date:
2010-02-22 12:28:12 UTC
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Trying to delete the only big partition on a 640GB disk with
gnome-disk-utility, the following error message is displayed. However, it works
well with fdisk:

Error erasing: helper exited with exit code 1: In part_del_partition: device_file=/dev/sdb, offset=64512
Entering MS-DOS parser (offset=0, size=640135028736)
MSDOS_MAGIC found
looking at part 0 (offset 64512, size 640124126208, type 0x83)
new part entry
looking at part 1 (offset 0, size 0, type 0x00)
new part entry
looking at part 2 (offset 0, size 0, type 0x00)
new part entry
looking at part 3 (offset 0, size 0, type 0x00)
new part entry
Exiting MS-DOS parser
MSDOS partition table detected
Warning: Device /dev/sdb has a logical sector size of 1024.  Not all parts of GNU Parted support this at the moment, and the working code is HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL.

got it
Error: Can't have a partition outside the disk!
ped_disk_new() failed