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

[David Cantrell]

leslie.polzer at gmx.net wrote:
> 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?

That's correct.  It's 512 on this disk.

> >    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.

No problem.  If you need anything else, let me know.

-- 
David Cantrell
Red Hat / Westford, MA
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