Thank, However, how could I have destroy the partition table of 3 disks using gparted only? =========================================================================== Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre@xxxxxxx Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l'Atmosphère | | Université du Littoral-Côte d'Opale | | Tel. (33)-(0)3 28 23 76 12 | | Fax: 03 28 65 82 44 189A, avenue Maurice Schumann | | 59140 Dunkerque, France =========================================================================== > Sent: Friday, July 14, 2017 at 4:49 PM > From: stan <stanl-fedorauser@xxxxxxxxxxx> > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: /dev/loop > > On Fri, 14 Jul 2017 13:22:50 +0200 > "Patrick Dupre" <pdupre@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > 2 days ago, I received a brand new UBS key (Lexar S75). > > I inserted it inside the UBS port of my Linux machine. > > I open the key (it mounted automatically) and read the instructions > > about the encryption coming with the key (by opening a file). > > I did not pay too much attention because I was not interested, > > This can be a recipe for disaster when working with computers. > > > I just changed the size of the > > first partition and I added a ext4 partition. > > Is it possible you made a mistake and actually changed a different > partition table? The partition table for one of your disks? > > > Later I turned off the PC. > > The following day, I tried to restart te computer, but I was > > unable to boot. > > Thus, I try to read the key from another computer and gparted did not > > like (fdisk was giving wrong partitions). Thus, I had to entirely > > repartition the stick. > > Again, a good indication that you didn't actually partition the > USB stick when you thought you did. > > > Anyway, I started to investigate the issues with the PC which could > > not boot. And I arrived at the point that the partition tables of the > > 3 HD were mess up. > > > > Now, I am making the link. > > Can this stick have a virus which may have mess up the partition > > tables. > > I don't think so. > > > > Please, note that one of the HD probably still had a XP OS bootable. > > I did not use it for a very long time. > > > > What do you think? > > Unless you ran a program from the USB stick, the fact XP was on the > disk would have no effect. And it would have to be a linux program > that modified the partition tables, so it would have to run as root. > Opening a file would not do this. Hmm, if you used an editor with a > script interpreter in it, and the file had a script for that editor, > and the script was set to run on open, and you were root, and Jupiter > aligned with Mars, and ... > > Far more likely you partitioned the wrong disk. > > Or, does that PC have power issues? Or could one of the disks be > failing? > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
