RE: Scripting parted

[VomLehn, David]

Output from parted when I try to use "-s" with the mklabel command
==================================================================
Note: This may not matter, but my disk starts of with a partition table
format that is not recognized by parted.

The output if I use "-s":

     ~ # parted -s /dev/hda mklabel yes msdos
     Warning: The existing disk label on /dev/hda will be destroyed and
all data on this disk wi
     ll be lost. Do you want to continue?
     Backtrace has 2 calls on stack:
       2: /lib/libparted-1.8.so.0(ped_assert+0x6c) [0x2ab11e98]
       1: parted [0x411d44]
     *** glibc detected *** parted: munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer:
0x00463cc0 ***
     Aborted

If I don't use "-s":

     ~ # parted  /dev/hda mklabel yes msdos
     Warning: The existing disk label on /dev/hda will be destroyed and
all data on
     this disk will be lost. Do you want to continue?
     Information: Don't forget to update /etc/fstab, if necessary.

And the version:

     ~ # parted -v
     GNU Parted 1.8.1


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Otavio Salvador [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 5:18 PM
> To: VomLehn, David
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Scripting parted
>
> "VomLehn, David" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > parted -s /dev/hda mklabel yes msdos
> >
> >    it fails and prints a backtrace. Is this a bug or the
> way parted is
> >    expected to work?
>
> I would love to see the backtrace you have gotten ;-)
>
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