DriveSetup can't see unallocated free space after partition being deleted

[Nexus-6]

It’s been a while I’m trying to set up an old laptop to run all BeOS variants (including Haiku 32bit), just for fun. I had a 55.86 Gb IDE disk with four partitions (all of them created and formatted in Haiku): Haiku 5gb R5 20gb R5.1 10Gb Zeta 20.89 Gb In Haiku I deleted the R5 20gb partition to accommodate two smaller partitions but now that space disappeared and none of the OS installed is able to see the unallocated space anymore. The only thing I can attach right now is a screenshot, please advice on what I can provide more. Maybe a dump of the partition table?

[Nexus-6]

screenshot of DriveSetup

[korli]

Please attach a syslog.

[pulkomandy]

A dump of the partition table will be very useful, yes.

Something like this should do:

dd if=/dev/disk/ata/0/master/raw of=partition_table bs=1M count=1

[Nexus-6]

In the meantime I was able to restore the partition using a GParted live CD and reinstalled BeOS succesfully. But reporting this bug seemed a priority so I decided to remove the partition again and I was able to perfectly reproduce the behaviour! Syslog and partition table attached. Thanks!

[korli]

Is the syslog with the partition table restored?

[Nexus-6]

No it has been taken immediately after I deleted the partition (again).

[Nexus-6]

I’m about to restore it. Do you want to look also at a syslog after it’s done?

[korli]

No, I see the three partitions in syslog.old