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

[Kalle Olavi Niemitalo]

"Steinar H. Gunderson" <sgunderson at bigfoot.com> writes:

> 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.

I am not qualified to review it.  Anyway, I'd prefer having some
assertions in place to make sure that nothing overlaps in a fresh
GPT disklabel.  (However, I wouldn't dare add such assertions to
places where *existing* disklabels are processed, unless I first
checked the EFI specification.)
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