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Re: parted-1.8.x unusable - gives 'unrecognised disk label'. parted 1.7.
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Jim Meyering |
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Re: parted-1.8.x unusable - gives 'unrecognised disk label'. parted 1.7.1 does not. |
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Sun, 03 Feb 2008 09:56:48 +0100 |
Graham Keeling <address@hidden> wrote:
> When I install versions of parted between 1.8.0 and 1.8.8 (I've tested 1.8.0,
> 1.8.7 and 1.8.8), I get the following and therefore cannot do anything useful
> with it:
>
> ----------------
> GNU Parted 1.8.8
> Using /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/disc
> Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
> (parted) p
> Error: /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/disc: unrecognised disk label
> (parted)
> ----------------
>
> When I install parted-1.7.1, it works fine:
>
> ----------------
> GNU Parted 1.7.1
> Using /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/disc
> Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
> (parted) p
>
> Disk /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/disc: 200GB
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
> Partition Table: msdos
>
> Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
> 1 32.3kB 526MB 526MB primary ext3 boot
> 2 526MB 200GB 200GB extended
> 5 526MB 666MB 140MB logical ext3
> 6 666MB 806MB 140MB logical linux-swap
> 7 806MB 10.8GB 10.0GB logical ext3
> 8 10.8GB 200GB 189GB logical ext3
Thanks for the report!
That sounds like a regression.
Please send me the first few KB of data from it (raw),
and I'll look at it. E.g., run this
dd if=/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/disc of=/tmp/parted-head count=4
then mail the output as an attachment.
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