Error when labeling a partition type when one does not already exist...

[Ronald W. Henderson]

Folks:

I am using GNU Parted 1.8.1 on fedora core 5. I have a 256MB thumb drive
without
nn initial partition label.

address@hidden ~]# fdisk -l /dev/sda

Disk /dev/sda: 262 MB, 262144000 bytes
9 heads, 56 sectors/track, 1015 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 504 * 512 = 258048 bytes

Disk /dev/sda doesn't contain a valid partition table


address@hidden ~]# parted -s /dev/sda print
Error: Unable to open /dev/sda - unrecognised disk label.

If I try to label with parted it throws an error. My workaround is to
label first with fdisk and then subsequent changes to the partition
label with parted is ok...

address@hidden ~]# parted -s /dev/sda mklabel msdos;


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        parted DEVICE unit co print unit s print

and additional information about your setup you consider important.

Error: SEGV_MAPERR (Address not mapped to object)Aborted


---Ron Henderson