[parted-devel] Possible GPT r/w error

[Andrew Gaffney]

leslie.polzer at gmx.net wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 04:59:09PM -0400, David Cantrell wrote:
> 
>> Steps given to me to reproduce the problem:
>>
>> [...]
> We need more information from them.  Is this the minimal case?  What
> happens when mounting and unmounting occur at different times?  Does the
> bug show up only when creating the second partition?
> 
>   A dump of the first three sectors at different stages of the process
> would also be helpful.
> 
>   I'm eager to get this information because I would like to fix this
> serious bug.

It isn't exactly smart to be partitioning a disk with mounted/active partitions.

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Andrew Gaffney                            http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/
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