I recently tried to format a disk that had an old Ubuntu 14.04 partition and a Xen Swap Disk partition. I am currently running the Ubuntu Live CD and trying to access my partitions on the drive for formatting and re-installation.When I open the disk in Disks it says there is a full 256GB disk available to be accessed, but when I try to format, I get the message Error synchronizing after initial wipe: Timed out waiting for object (udisks-error-quark, 0).When I try to access the disk in Gparted it says there is 238GB of space, that can be formatted, but i am not able to install ubuntu on that partition when i run the installer. The disk seems to be 16GB smaller than the actual size of the disk, and the old swap disk happened to be 16GB. I am assuming there is some type of faulty or current swap partition still located on the disk that I cannot access. I ran the lvs command in terminal and nothing shows.
Old Xen Installation Unable to be Formatted
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