[Parted-maintainers] Bug#441033: parted: breaks Intel Mac partitions

[Debian Live user]

Package: parted
Version: 1.7.1-5.1
Severity: normal


There are several problems with parted on intel macs.

First, these have actually two partitions tables, GPT and MBR.

Unlike *fdisk parted displays the GPT partition and allows to edit it.
However, it removes partition from both tables but only adds them to GPT
so the two tables have to be synchronized with other tools.

Also the partition that is created with parted has the flag 'msftres'
that cannot be removed. This flag makes most OS X tools ignore the
partition.  This is probably caused by parted setting the type of the
partition to MS Reserved. The type cannot be displayed or changed in
parted, or at least I could not figure out which command would at least
display it.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-2-486
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages parted depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.6-2          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncurses5               5.6+20070716-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libparted1.7-1            1.7.1-5.1      The GNU Parted disk partitioning s
ii  libreadline5              5.2-3          GNU readline and history libraries

parted recommends no packages.

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