Bug#328694: [Parted-maintainers] Bug#328694: acknowledged by developer (Bug#328694: fixed in parted 1.6.24-3)

[Otavio Salvador]

Frans Pop <aragorn at tiscali.nl> writes:

> Hi Otavio,
>
> I can now confirm that partman shows existing partitions again :-)
> Thanks for fixing it so quickly.
>
>
> The only thing I was wondering about from the patch
>
> +-      disk_data->length = block * PED_BE16_TO_CPU(label->ncyl);
> ++      disk_data->length = block * disk->dev->bios_geom.cylinders;
>
> is, shouldn't label->ncyl also contain the correct value? Isn't that the 
> real error?
>
> Especially as label->partitions[i].num_sectors a few lines below 
> apparently does contain the correct number. Or should that value be 
> doubted as well?

Well, yes. This need double check again. I'll do that ASAP but hadn't
time to work on it since I was traveling and just arrived :(

I'll recheck that and contact you and upstream. For now, this works
and others tested it too so won't be so bad for meanwhile ;-)

I need to check since Sven was going to release 1.6.25 and then I
probably will need to package it too. :-)

Thanks for the bug report, machine and test. I'll probably need to use
your machine again if you can provide access to me :-)

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