[parted-devel] More info regarding 1st partition destruction

[leslie.polzer at gmx.net]

On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 01:22:17PM -0400, David Cantrell wrote:

>    dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=512
May I assume the disk has a logical block size of 512?

>    http://people.redhat.com/dcantrel/parted/diskimage.tar.gz

> He also indicated that creating other partitions (say, a third or
> fourth) will also destroy the first partition on the disk.
That seems perfectly reasonable to me (as far as the bug is concerned).

  Thanks a lot for the data, I will fix the problem for rc6.

    Leslie

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