I got this message in GParted when seeing information about a partition that is marked with the yellow warning icon in the partition list:
e2label: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/sda6
Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock.
Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock.
dumpe2fs 1.42 (29-Nov-2011)
dumpe2fs: No such file or
directory while trying to open /
dev/sda6
Unable to read the contents of this file system!
Because of this some operations may be unavailable.
The cause might be a missing software package.
The following list of software packages is required for ext4
file system support: e2fsprogs v1.41+.
I've checked that e2fsprogs is already the newest version. This is the result of ls /dev/sda*
:
/dev/sda /dev/sda2 /dev/sda5 /dev/sda7
There's no /dev/sda6, but this is the result of sudo fdisk -l
:
Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders, total 234441648 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x48350995
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda2 61239296 125128703 31944704 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 125130751 234441628 54655439 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda4 52854784 61239295 4192256 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda5 125130752 204957263 39913256 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 204957333 232315956 13679312 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 232315965 234441628 1062832 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Partition table entries are not in disk order
How to address this problem? Please tell me if my information is not enough. I don't know exactly what information is related to or needed to solve this problem. Leak of knowledge about this problem also makes me difficult to google it.
UPDATE
It seems this problem appeared after I tried to make 2 new ntfs partitions when another partition is in use (i.e. current Ubuntu partition). I reproduced the scenario and got this message when creating one of them:
GParted 0.11.0 --enable-libparted-dmraid
Libparted 2.3
Format /dev/sda4 as ntfs 00:00:02 ( ERROR )
calibrate /dev/sda4 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS )
path: /dev/sda4
start: 52,854,784
end: 61,239,295
size: 8,384,512 (4.00 GiB)
set partition type on /dev/sda4 00:00:02 ( ERROR )
libparted messages ( INFO )
Error informing the kernel about modifications to partition /dev/sda3 -- Device or resource busy. This means Linux won't know about any changes you made to /dev/sda3 until you reboot -- so you shouldn't mount it or use it in any way before rebooting.
Failed to add partition 3 (Device or resource busy)
I've rebooted, but there was no change.