Re: bug partedUtil in ESXi 5.0

[rahul dev]

> +0000, Memenza, David wrote:
> > /dev/disks # partedUtil fix
> vml.02000000002000000087097ae1583233355f48
> > Warning: Device /dev/disks/naa.2000000087097ae1 has a
> logical sector size of 520.  Not all parts of GNU
> Parted support this at the
> > moment, and the working code is HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL.
> > 
> > Backtrace has 8 calls on stack:
> >   8:
> /usr/lib/libparted-1.8.so.0(ped_assert+0x3b) [0x18b93f8b]
> >   7: /usr/lib/libparted-1.8.so.0
> [0x18ba0c47]
> >   6: /usr/lib/libparted-1.8.so.0
> [0x18ba0f6e]
> >   5: /usr/lib/libparted-1.8.so.0
> [0x18ba18c8]
> >   4:
> /usr/lib/libparted-1.8.so.0(ped_device_get+0xbb)
> [0x18b94d9b]
> >   3: partedUtil(main+0x96c) [0x804b75c]
> >   2:
> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xdc) [0x18c10efc]
> >   1: partedUtil [0x80491b1]
> > A bug has been detected in GNU Parted.  Refer to
> the web site of parted http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html for
> more
> > informations of what could be useful for bug
> submitting!  Please email a bug report to address@hidden
> containing at least the
> > version (1.8.1) and the following message: 
> Assertion (dev->sector_size % 512 == 0) at
> arch/linux.c:628 in function _device_get_length() failed.
> 
> Thanks for the report, but parted 1.8.1 is ancient. If you
> can, try
> using the 3.x release.
> 

What disk are you using ? Looks like that the disk block size is 520 bytes. 
ESXi doesn't support any block size other than 512.