[Parted-maintainers] Bug#418704: parted does not show existing partitions

[Henrik Brautaset Aronsen]

Package: parted
Version: 1.8.1~git1-1
Severity: important


Parted does not show my partitions at all, and lists the partition table as
"loop".  Other partition software I've tried does not have problems with the
hard drive.

This is my hard drive, with fdisk v2.12r:

Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders, total 156301488 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1              63       96389       48163+  de  Dell Utility
/dev/hda2   *       96390    61448624    30676117+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda3        61448625   154175804    46363590   83  Linux
/dev/hda4       154175805   156280319     1052257+  82  Linux swap / Solaris


And with parted v1.8.1 (no different from v1.7.1):

Model: HTS721080G9AT00 (ide)
Disk /dev/hda: 80,0GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: loop

Number  Start  End     Size    File system  Flags
 1      0,00B  80,0GB  80,0GB  fat16             

Model: HTS721080G9AT00 (ide)
Disk /dev/hda: 156301487s
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: loop

Number  Start  End         Size        File system  Flags
 1      0s     156301487s  156301488s  fat16             

Model: HTS721080G9AT00 (ide)
Disk /dev/hda: 9729,80,62
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
BIOS cylinder,head,sector geometry: 9729,255,63.  Each cylinder is 8225kB.
Partition Table: loop

Number  Start  End         File system  Flags
 1      0,0,0  9729,80,62  fat16             


Now with gpart v0.1h:

Begin scan...
Possible partition(DOS FAT), size(47mb), offset(0mb)
Possible partition(Windows NT/W2K FS), size(29957mb), offset(47mb)
Possible partition(Linux ext2), size(45276mb), offset(30004mb)
Possible partition(Linux swap), size(1027mb), offset(75281mb)
End scan.

Checking partitions...
Partition(Primary 'big' DOS (> 32MB)): primary 
Partition(OS/2 HPFS, NTFS, QNX or Advanced UNIX): primary 
Partition(Linux ext2 filesystem): primary 
Partition(Linux swap or Solaris/x86): primary 
Ok.

Guessed primary partition table:
Primary partition(1)
   type: 006(0x06)(Primary 'big' DOS (> 32MB))
   size: 47mb #s(96325) s(63-96387)
   chs:  (0/1/1)-(5/254/61)d (0/1/1)-(5/254/61)r

Primary partition(2)
   type: 007(0x07)(OS/2 HPFS, NTFS, QNX or Advanced UNIX)
   size: 29957mb #s(61352232) s(96390-61448621)
   chs:  (6/0/1)-(1023/254/63)d (6/0/1)-(3824/254/60)r

Primary partition(3)
   type: 131(0x83)(Linux ext2 filesystem)
   size: 45276mb #s(92727176) s(61448625-154175800)
   chs:  (1023/254/63)-(1023/254/63)d (3825/0/1)-(9596/254/59)r

Primary partition(4)
   type: 130(0x82)(Linux swap or Solaris/x86)
   size: 1027mb #s(2104520) s(154175805-156280324)
   chs:  (1023/254/63)-(1023/254/63)d (9597/0/1)-(9728/0/5)r


The bug is also listed in parted's bug tracking:
http://parted.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/ticket/14


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=nb_NO, LC_CTYPE=nb_NO (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages parted depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncurses5                 5.5-5        Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libparted1.8-0              1.8.1~git1-1 The GNU Parted disk partitioning s
ii  libreadline5                5.2-2        GNU readline and history libraries

parted recommends no packages.

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