[Parted-maintainers] Bug#390185: parted cannot use partitions from cfdisk after zeroing first sector

[Ernest ter Kuile]

Package: parted
Version: 1.7.1-2.1
Severity: important


Because of some troubles, I completly blanked the first sector of a CF card
using:
terkuile:/home/ernest# dd of=/dev/sda if=/dev/zero bs=512 count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
512 bytes (512 B) copied, 0.033544 seconds, 15.3 kB/s

and repartitioned it using cfdisk.

I had three partitions encapsulated within the extended partition
terkuile:/home/ernest# fdisk  /dev/sda -l
Disk /dev/sda: 1045 MB, 1045094400 bytes
33 heads, 61 sectors/track, 1014 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2013 * 512 = 1030656 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1        1014     1020560+   5  Extended
/dev/sda5               1          31       31140+   4  FAT16 <32M
/dev/sda6              32         952      926956   83  Linux
/dev/sda7             953        1014       62372+  82  Linux swap / Solaris

All partitions were formatted and also read and written too.

When reading with parted however I get:

terkuile:/home/ernest# parted -s /dev/sda print
No Implementation: Partition 1 isn't aligned to cylinder boundaries.  This
is still unsupported.

This seems fairly basic to me.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17.13
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages parted depends on:
ii  libc6                        2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncurses5                  5.5-3       Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libparted1.7-1               1.7.1-2.1   The GNU Parted disk partitioning s
ii  libreadline5                 5.1-7       GNU readline and history libraries

parted recommends no packages.

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