[Parted-maintainers] Bug#582818: parted can delete active partition -> Dataloss!

[Achim Schaefer]

Package: parted
Version: 2.2-5
Severity: grave
Justification: causes non-serious data loss

I just used parted to delete a mounted partition.

How to reproduce:
- empty partition table
- create 2 partitions (in the normal way first partion is physically before the secound)
- mount the secound one (of course create a filesystem, ...)
- delete the first partion
=> there is an error message teh kernel can not read the new table, because the second is still mounted
=> now parted shows only one partion(as the first one!)
- delete the first partition (even so still mounted)

I did the same on a disk with 6 partitions 6 was the mounted one, and I deleted partiton 5

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (800, 'unstable'), (800, 'testing'), (500, 'experimental'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-openvz-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages parted depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.10.2-9       Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libncurses5               5.7+20100313-2 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libparted0debian1         2.2-5          The GNU Parted disk partitioning s
ii  libreadline6              6.1-2          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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