[parted-devel] bug in mac disklabel support

[leslie.polzer at gmx.net]

Hi Andrew,

On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 08:24:02PM -0600, Andrew Gaffney wrote:

> Even though the Apple_free partition is *physically* before the new
> partition on the disk, parted created it *after* the new partition in
> the partition table.
>
> While this probably won't cause too many problems,
  This is likely not to cause _any_ problem with sane disk software.

> it seems like quite a silly thing for parted to do.
  No, it is expected behaviour.  Parted tries to preserve the partition
numbering whenever possible, which is a Good Thing(tm) for everyone.

  mac-fdisk just displays by number, not physical location.
Linux fdisk shows the same behaviour and adds the note "Partition table
entries are not in disk order" below, if appropriate.

  I hope that clears up things.

    Leslie

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