[parted-devel] "Error: Can't have a partition outside the disk!"

[Phillip Susi]

On 9/15/2010 11:47 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Hi Rich,
> 
> What is your use case?  It seems rather unusual

We get plenty of reports from users getting this or similar errors at
the Ubuntu forums and bug tracker.  Somehow something goes slightly
wrong with the partition table, and parted and gparted refuse to show or
do anything with it, and they have to resort to fdisk to get a look at
the table, figure out what's wrong, and fix it.  It would be much
preferable if (g)parted would let you know something is wrong, but
continue with showing you what's in the table and letting you fix it.