Resolved - with Knoppix 3.9 parted move/resize works fine with for my SATA drive.
Knoppix 3.8.1 CD boots on my PC successfully and mounts my SATA drive correctly such that I can view and edit files on all the partitions.
However parted and qtparted fail to resize a FAT32 partition reporting the message "The information sector has the wrong signature (0)".
Any suggestions? PC has Asus A7V600-X motherboard with VIA 8237 SATA and single SATA drive attached. Output from parted:
qtparted reports same error when attempting to resize /dev/sda partition 7Code:Using /UNIONFS/dev/sda Information: The operating system thinks the geometry on /UNIONFS/dev/sda is 9729/255/63. Therefore, cylinder 1024 ends at 8032.499M. (parted) print Disk geometry for /UNIONFS/dev/sda: 0.000-76319.085 megabytes Disk label type: msdos Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags 1 0.031 2863.146 primary fat32 boot 2 2863.147 76316.594 extended lba 5 2863.178 5726.293 logical fat32 6 5726.325 24803.481 logical fat32 7 24803.512 43880.668 logical fat32 8 43880.700 76316.594 logical fat32 (parted) resize 7 Start? [24803.5122]? End? [43880.6685]? 40000 Warning: The information sector has the wrong signature (0). Select cancel for now, and send in a bug report. If you're desperate, it's probably safe to ignore.
fdisk reports:Code:root@1[knoppix]# qtparted Warning: Unable to open /UNIONFS/dev/hda read-write (Read-only file system). /UNIONFS/dev/hda has been opened read-only. Warning: The information sector has the wrong signature (a0d7472). Select cancel for now, and send in a bug report. If you're desperate, it's probably safeto ignore. Warning: The information sector has the wrong signature (0). Select cancel for now, and send in a bug report. If you're desperate, it's probably safe to ignore.
Code:Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 365 2931831 b W95 FAT32 /dev/sda2 366 9729 75216330 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda5 366 730 2931831 b W95 FAT32 /dev/sda6 731 3162 19535008+ b W95 FAT32 /dev/sda7 3163 5594 19535008+ b W95 FAT32 /dev/sda8 5595 9729 33214356 b W95 FAT32
Resolved - with Knoppix 3.9 parted move/resize works fine with for my SATA drive.
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