Question: Gparted shows mu such a message after scanning the disk contents with title “Libprated warning”.
The background:
This happened after I tried shrinking down one of the partitions to make room for another partition. I was doing this with The KDE Partition Manager. It’s a brand new machine, but somehow things has gone wrong and I was unable to mount the down-sized partition.
I recovered the partition table with TestDisk, but the system seemed to hand in the Plymouth after showing an error message about the swap partition (which was under sda1).
Now’ve booted a LiveCD and I can mount and browse both the system and data partition. I created a new swap.
What can I do to fix this issue? And what problems might this cause?
Answer: The issue is very similar to the one below, most likely there was a dd command ran over the device that caused the mismatch descriptor.
Ask Ubuntu: Unable to delete USB Drive partitions (Block size error)
The problem you are describing was caused by a low-level device tool (like dd) writing blocks at the wrong size directly onto the device.
To fix this, you need to re-write the device blocks to the appropriate size. This can be done with dd. Double check your output device before running the commands:
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdd bs=2048 count=32 && sync
Once the dd command is done, you should be able to access your device through gparted.