[Parted-maintainers] Bug#529585: parted resized an HFS+ partition OK, but changed its code

[A Mennucc]

Package: parted
Version: 1.8.8.git.2008.03.24-11.1
Severity: normal

hi,

I have an external USB drive, with partition table of "msdos"
style (as reported by 'parted'); it had 3 partitions, and
 the first and  largest was a HFS+ partition.

I wanted to create another partition, so I used 'parted' to reduce
the size of the first partion/HFS+filesystem; 'parted' ran OK,
and Linux could read the volume OK (but not write it, since it
is journalled).

 But when I connected the disk to a Mac, the partition was listed
as a "dos" partition, and not accessible.

It turned out that 'parted' changed  the type
of the partition in the MBR table. This is a bug (and it seems an
easy to fix bug).

So I connected the disk to the Linux box once again, and
used 'fdisk' to set the partition type code to (hexadecimal) 'af'

When I connected the disk to the MAc, I could visualize the 
partition; and according to Mac Os X 'disk utility' , I have
to repair some problems in the volume bitmap, but the partition
and its data seem OK.

a.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages parted depends on:
ii  libc6          2.7-18                    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncurses5    5.7+20081213-1            shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libparted1.8-1 1.8.8.git.2008.03.24-11.1 The GNU Parted disk partitioning s
ii  libreadline5   5.2-3.1                   GNU readline and history libraries

parted recommends no packages.

Versions of packages parted suggests:
pn  parted-doc                    <none>     (no description available)

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