Opened 10 years ago
Closed 10 years ago
#11136 closed bug (fixed)
DriveSetup not recognize BFS Particion
| Reported by: | un_spacyar | Owned by: | jessicah |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | R1 |
| Component: | Partitioning Systems | Version: | R1/Development |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Blocked By: | Blocking: | ||
| Platform: | x86 |
Description
I had a BFS formatted partition that is incorrectly recognized as NT File System, and get an I/O Error when try to mount it.
The partition is correctly recognized in hrev45740; but in recent build, (hrev47707) had the problem previously mentioned.
Adittional information: the problematic partition, originally was a NTFS partition, that was re-formated as BFS (not a booteable one), using hrev45740. However, until now, I never had any problem with is.
both systems was gcc2 hybrid.
Attachments (5)
Change History (13)
by , 10 years ago
| Attachment: | DriveSetup_hrev45740.png added |
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comment:1 by , 10 years ago
About the screenshots; the problem is in the following partition: dev/disk/ata/0/master/2
Note that in recent build, "Volume name" is blank, and the FileSystem is incorrecty recognized.
comment:2 by , 10 years ago
1) it would be helpful if you could narrow down when it broke a bit more closely than 2000 revisions. 2) while the partition might contain a BFS filesystem, that doesn't necessarily mean it's correctly tagged as such in the partition table. Please verify that the partition type is correct.
follow-up: 5 comment:4 by , 10 years ago
Sorry about my last comment. I found the "Partition Type" info. In both cases, the partition type is "Be File System".
See new attach.
by , 10 years ago
| Attachment: | PartitionType_hrev47707.png added |
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by , 10 years ago
| Attachment: | PartitionType_hrev45740.png added |
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comment:5 by , 10 years ago
Hello. I open the partition with the "DiskProbe" app, and I see a "NTFS" string in the first sectors of the partition (see new attachment). Maybe this partition had some "inconsistent" state (as I said previously, it was a NTFS partition first, but then reformateed as BFS), that causes the issue.
Maybe this ticket is invalid, after all....
comment:6 by , 10 years ago
I have the same problem, with Installer (DriveSetup) and with the application DriveSetup.
comment:7 by , 10 years ago
| Owner: | changed from to |
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| Status: | new → assigned |
It seems to be a problem with the BFS init code. I had a similar issue just now trying to reformat an NTFS partition to BFS. It said it completed successfully, although the label it presented in the alert was "" instead of the requested name of "Data".
Opening DiskProbe, I too saw the NTFS data in the first sector was still present. And the syslog showed it scanning for partitions and identifying it as NTFS.
My solution was to erase the first sector with DiskProbe (just filling with spaces is sufficient). After doing this, DiskSetup correctly initialised the BFS partition.
However, opening with DiskProbe, I see the first sector is still untouched. This likely explains the issue (seems the BFS superblock is at sector 1, not sector 0).
DriveSetup hrev45740