Thread: Gparted error: Can't have a partition outside the disk!

hi,

upgrading ubuntu natty last night, crashed before completion. then, couldn't mount drive i'm booting live disc. go gparted, gives me error saying:

can't have partition outside disk!

have /root , /home in separate partitions, must find way /home can survive. i've run testdisk , get:

code:

disk /dev/sda - 160 gb / 149 gib - chs 19458 255 63      partition               start        end    size in sectors >* fat16 >32m               0   1  1    14 254 63     240912 [dellutility]  p fat32 lba               15   0  1  4192 254 63   67119570 [no name]  p fat32 lba             8360   1  1 12183 254 62   61432496  l linux                14068   1  1 18939 254 62   78268616  l linux swap           18940   1  1 19129 254 40    3052264  l fat32 lba            19130 218 33 19457  21 20    5240832 [mediadirect]

there 2 linux partitions, linux , swap, seems /home has disappeared! there way recover it? also, how fix gparted's complaint?

appreciated.

cheers

i have not used testdisk enough know. should show /home partition. know on disk? showing fat partitions. have careful not create overlapping partitions, not think lets need understand partition layout before able recover best.

first have current backup of current partition table layout.

backup partition table text file & save external device.
sudo sfdisk -d /dev/sda > pt.txt

think testdisk makes extended partition end larger drive. fixparts solve partition table issue. fixparts not find missing partitions.

fixparts - repair broken partition tables (not overlapping issues)
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1705325
http://www.rodsbooks.com/fixparts/

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