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ped_geometry_destroy() bug (parted 1.6.6)
From: |
Laas Toom |
Subject: |
ped_geometry_destroy() bug (parted 1.6.6) |
Date: |
Mon, 23 Feb 2004 13:45:16 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.4.1i |
Hello!
I was researching the backgrounds of different methods of partition recovery
(in case of partition table loss, deletion, etc) for an article and used a 32MB
USB stick for the testground.
I created the following partitions on it with fdisk:
Disk /dev/sda: 33 MB, 33030144 bytes
2 heads, 32 sectors/track, 1008 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 64 * 512 = 32768 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 367 11728 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 368 1008 20512 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 368 673 9776 4 FAT16 <32M
/dev/sda6 674 1008 10704 83 Linux
As i wanted to be sure ntfs is also recovered, but my Windows XP Home did not
let me format a partition on this stick (not even to FAT), i had to hack my
way: created a fat partition with mkfs.msdos to sda1 and used MS convert to
convert to ntfs. After that created the extended partition and sda5 and sda6,
both using mkfs.
At this point parted printed this out:
(parted) print
Disk geometry for /dev/sda: 0.000-31.500 megabytes
Disk label type: msdos
Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags
1 0.016 11.468 primary ntfs type=07
2 11.469 31.500 extended type=05
5 11.484 21.031 logical type=04
6 21.047 31.500 logical ext3 type=83
Then i deleted all partitions with fdisk, and wanted to recover them with
parted's rescue command, but the following was printed out:
(parted) rescue
Start? 0.016
End? 11.468
Error: Can't have a partition outside the disk!
Error: Can't have a partition outside the disk!
Error: Can't have a partition outside the disk!
Error: Can't have a partition outside the disk!
Error: Can't have the end before the start!
You found a bug in GNU Parted. Please email a bug report to address@hidden
containing the version (1.6.6), and the following message:
Assertion (geom != NULL) at geom.c:90 in function ped_geometry_destroy() failed.
Ignore/Cancel?
Then i was stuck with this message looping (had to kill parted, to get prompt
back).
I hope this is useful information to you.
Best regards,
Laas Toom
address@hidden
- ped_geometry_destroy() bug (parted 1.6.6),
Laas Toom <=