[parted-devel] Re: recent parted version reports bug

[Harley D. Eades III]

joe <joe at sytefact.com> writes:
Hello, and thanks for the detailed report. :)

> Here is the output of parted:
> 
> $ parted /dev/sdd
> GNU Parted 1.6.25.1
> Copyright (C) 1998 - 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public
> License.
> 
> This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
> WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
> warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See
> the GNU General Public License for more
> details.
> 
> Using /dev/sdd
> (parted) check
> Partition number? 1
> Error: The file system's CHS geometry is (248, 1001, 32), which is
> invalid.  The partition table's CHS geometry is
> (495, 255, 63).  If you select Ignore, the file system's CHS geometry
> will be left unchanged.  If you select Fix,
> the file system's CHS geometry will be set to match the partition
> table's CHS geometry.
> Fix/Ignore/Cancel? c
> Error: The file system's CHS geometry is (248, 1001, 32), which is
> invalid.  The partition table's CHS geometry is
> (495, 255, 63).  If you select Ignore, the file system's CHS geometry
> will be left unchanged.  If you select Fix,
> the file system's CHS geometry will be set to match the partition
> table's CHS geometry.
> Fix/Ignore/Cancel? C
> Error: The file system's CHS geometry is (248, 1001, 32), which is
> invalid.  The partition table's CHS geometry is
> (495, 255, 63).  If you select Ignore, the file system's CHS geometry
> will be left unchanged.  If you select Fix,
> the file system's CHS geometry will be set to match the partition
> table's CHS geometry.
> Fix/Ignore/Cancel? I
> 
Could you try and have parted fix the errors and see if it does?
Also this is not the newest version of parted, we are on 1.7.1.  It
might be useful to try are newest version.

Cheers
Harley