Both Gutsy and Feisty see the disk as the same size Gutsy (I catted the dmesg from Feisty) :
$ cat dmesg | grep sectors [ 5.692000] ata1.00: 156368016 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32) [ 6.216000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 156368016 512-byte hardware sectors (80060 MB) [ 6.216000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 156368016 512-byte hardware sectors (80060 MB) Feisty : $ dmesg | grep sectors [ 4.028000] ata1.00: ata_hpa_resize 1: sectors = 156368016, hpa_sectors = 156368016 [ 4.028000] ata1.00: 156368016 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32) [ 4.036000] ata1.00: ata_hpa_resize 1: sectors = 156368016, hpa_sectors = 156368016 [ 4.524000] SCSI device sda: 156368016 512-byte hdwr sectors (80060 MB) [ 4.524000] SCSI device sda: 156368016 512-byte hdwr sectors (80060 MB) -- gutsy kernel is causing data-loss.somehow related to SATA (media-error) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/151938 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs