Dimitris Zilaskos wrote:
Hi,
I was trying to get the kernel reread the status of the disks in
one raid controller after creating a new arrray. I erroneously
thought partprobe would do that. But running it had a nasty side
affect: It probed a different array in another controller which had
a GPFS filesystem and had no partition table, but was in the past
partitioned with parted. It mentioned that it found a backup
partition table, and then overwrote the current partition table
with the one from the backup.
Red Hat bugzilla 247278:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=247278
I am using parted-1.6.19-19.EL.x86_64 on rhel 4
Fixed packages were released last July:
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0698.html
Please update to parted-1.6.19-22.EL.
Regards,
Bryn.