Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gnome-disk-utility
Error erasing: helper exited with exit code 1: In part_del_partition:
device_file=/dev/sdd, offset=16384
Entering MS-DOS parser (offset=0, size=262799360)
MSDOS_MAGIC found
looking at part 0 (offset 16384, size 263307264, type 0x06)
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
got it
Error: Can't have a partition outside the disk!
ped_disk_new() failed
Here is how fdisk sees the partition:
$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdd
Disk /dev/sdd: 262 MB, 262799360 bytes
2 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4073 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 126 * 512 = 64512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x2c945164
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdd1 * 1 4082 257136 6 FAT16
Erasing device /dev/sdd worked ...
Thanks
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Feb 6 10:48:01 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: gnome-disk-utility 2.28.0+git20091012-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-17.54-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-disk-utility
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic i686
** Affects: gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug i386
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palimpsest cannot delete partition/MSDOS_MAGIC found
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/518087
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