Re: bug report

[Mathieu Bruneau]

Knox Moy wrote:
> Just started learning Linux and attempted to "parted" by CD in my Aopen 
> DVD+RW/+R "cdrecorder" and got the following message:
>  
> address@hidden ~]# /sbin/parted /dev/hdd print
> Warning: Unable to open /dev/hdd read-write (Read-only file system).  
> /dev/hdd
> has been opened read-only.
> You found a bug in GNU Parted.  Please email a bug report to 
> address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden> containing the version 
> (1.6.15), and the following message:
>  
> The sector size on /dev/hdd is 2048 bytes.  Parted is known not to work 
> properly
> with drives with sector sizes other than 512 bytes
> Ignore/Cancel? c
> Warning: Unable to open /dev/hdd read-write (Read-only file system).  
> /dev/hdd
> has been opened read-only.
> Error: Unable to open /dev/hdd - unrecognised disk label.
> Information: Don't forget to update /etc/fstab, if necessary.
>  
> Is this a real bug that should be reported?
> Knox
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
It all depends what is you hdd. If it's a cdrom/dvd it's normal it can't 
open it read-write. I think newer version of parted don't report this as 
a bug but you can't do much on a read-only partition anyway!

You probably want to start parted with another device that is your 
actual hard drive : Probably one of these
/dev/hda
/dev/hdb
/dev/hdc

If it's not your dvd/cdrom drive and that it's not mount read-only then 
you found a real bug ;)

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Mathieu Bruneau
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