[parted-devel] Bug: Removal of BLKPG causes regression of ability to manipulate disks with other partitions in use

[Phillip Susi]

On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:01:42 -0600
Curtis Gedak <gedakc at gmail.com> wrote:

> The problem occurs when partition and file system changes are made to
> a partition lower (e.g., sda1) than a mounted partition (e.g.,
> sda2). When this occurs parted does not recognize the file system on
> the lower partition.

What exactly do you mean by "not recognize"?

> However if I mount the second partition and proceed to delete the
> first partition, then when I recreate the first partition and format
> it, parted is unable to recognize the file system on the first
> partition.

Again, please be more specific.