[Parted-maintainers] Bug#349718: parted: last partition in EFI GPT overlaps alternate table

Steinar H. Gunderson sgunderson at bigfoot.com
Wed Jul 5 19:09:34 UTC 2006


On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 10:20:15PM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> The attached patch moves the backup partition table one sector further out;
> based on your analysis I'm fairly sure this is the right thing to do, but I
> have zero experience with both parted code and GPT partitions, so I'd
> appreciate if somebody could review it. It seems to plug the "hole", though,
> from what I can see.

As nobody (not even parted upstream, which got a copy of the bug and the
patch) has commented on this for a month, I'm going ahead and NMUing; the
patch seems sane to me, and nobody have cried out yet, so I guess it's OK. :-)

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