[parted-devel] tests/t3310-flags failure

Phillip Susi phill at thesusis.net
Thu May 23 18:54:49 BST 2019


Brian C. Lane writes:

> Weird. I threw a print into the test and it says it is a msdos label
> with no partitions:

Strange, but a good clue!

> parted -s dev-file u s p
> Model:  (file)
> Disk /builddir/build/BUILD/parted-3.2/tests/gt-t3310-flags.sh.D1cY/dev-file: 8192s
> Sector size (logical/physical): 1024B/1024B

Ahh, of course... it works fine with 512 byte sector sizes but seems to
fail with the others.

> Partition Table: msdos
> Disk Flags: 
> Number  Start  End  Size  Type  File system  Flags
>
> So it isn't just a failure of the print-flags helper. Currently I
> don't have much time to dig any deeper, maybe by the end of the week.

I infer that for some reason, the mac label also looks like an empty
dos label for some reason, but only for the larger sector sizes.
Curious.



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