Ubuntu harddisk formatting failed

Question

This is the problem I'm facing. Can any one suggest a solution

Error setting partition type after formatting: Error setting partition flags on /dev/sda2: Error spawning command-line `sgdisk --typecode 2:"ebd0a0a2-b9e5-4433-87c0-68b6b72699c7" "/dev/sda"': Failed to execute child process "sgdisk" (No such file or directory) (g-exec-error-quark, 8) (udisks-error-quark, 0)

How to fix this ?

Answer 1

Try this:

sudo apt-get install gdisk

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This works because, while the error message the OP cited says a number of things, the key part is:

Failed to execute child process "sgdisk" (No such file or directory)

So, assuming the issue is that sgdisk is not installed, it can be installed via the gdisk package. It worked for me.

Answer 2

Try this command, it worked for me:

sudo apt-get install cryptsetup

By default cryptsetup is not installed during Ubuntu installation, and that package is required to open encrypted partitions.

Answer 3

If you are using Ubuntu on the hard disk, then it can cause many problems (because the disk is in use I suppose).

I would recommend using a Live CD/USB in this case. And the program that I often use is GParted.