[Parted-maintainers] A possible parted bug

[Sven Luther]

On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 12:40:30AM +0300, Tapio Kelloniemi wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I would have filled a bug report on your bug tracking system, but it 
> uses JavaScript, so I e-mail.

I has an email interface, simply send the email to submit at bugs.debian.org,
with :

Package: parted
Version: 1.6.24-1 

or whatever.

Mmm, maybe you are even not using debian, and thus this is the wrong mailing
list, it is probable that you want to post to bug-parted at gnu.org or something
similar.


> I'm not sure if this bug is in parted, since parted and BIOS seem
> to disagree about the disk geometry.
> 
> System configuration:
> parted 1.6.24
> linux 2.6.11.12
> disk Samsung Spinpoint SerialAta 80GB
> Disk geometry for /dev/sda: 0,0,0 - 9733,116,62
> BIOS cylinder,head,sector geometry: 9733,255,63.  Each cylinder is 8225kB.
> 
> The following steps result in an assertion failure:
> > mklabel msdos
> > mkpart extended 0 -1
> > mkpart logical ext2 0 5gb
> > mkpart logical ext2 5gb 5.5gb
> Assertion (start <= end) at parted.c:251 in function 
> snap_to_boundaries() failed.
> 
> After Ignoring or Cancelling:
> Error: Can't have the end before the start!
> 
> But in any case:
> > print
> Disk geometry for /dev/sda: 0kB - 80GB
> Disk label type: msdos
> Number  Start   End     Size    Type      File system  Flags
> 1       1kB     80GB    80GB    extended
> 5       32kB    5001MB  5001MB  logical
> 6       5001MB  5009MB  8193kB  logical
> 
> Reversing the order of the two mkpart logicals fixes the problem, but 
> the resulting partition table looks identical (in compact unit mode).
> 
> Another assertion failure is triggered by:
> > mklabel msdos
> > mkpart extended 0 -1
> > mkpart logical ext2 0 3072mb
> > mkpart logical ext2 3072mb 5120mb
> Assertion (metadata_length > 0) at disk_dos.c:1962 in function
> add_logical_part_metadata() failed.
> 
> If printing is attempted, the same assertion fails again.
> 
> Hope this was useful. I'm not a member of list, so please CC to me.

Mmm, this is definitively an upstream issue, i will forward this to the right
place.

Friendly,

Sven Luther