[Parted-maintainers] Bug#758045: parted: can not delete partition on usb stick: physical block size wrong ?

[Phillip Susi]

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Please dump the first 64k of the disk and attach it:

dd if=/dev/sdf count=128 | gzip -c > dump.gz

On 08/13/2014 01:19 PM, Lars Cebulla wrote:
> Package: parted Version: 3.2-4 Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where
> appropriate ***
> 
> * What led up to the situation?
> 
> Connect a USB stick. Open a terminal and type "parted --script
> "/dev/sdf" "rm 1""
> 
> * What was the outcome of this action? Warning: The driver
> descriptor says the physical block size is 2048 bytes, but Linux
> says it is 512 bytes.
> 
> * What outcome did you expect instead? Partition should be
> deleted.
> 
> Tried deleting this partition with gnome-disks but internally it
> seems to use parted so I tried it directly as mentioned above.
> 
> This stick works without problems in Wheezy !
> 
> 
> 
> -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers
> testing-updates APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500,
> 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 3.14-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale:
> LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell:
> /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> 
> Versions of packages parted depends on: ii  libc6         2.19-7 ii
> libparted2    3.2-4 ii  libreadline6  6.3-8 ii  libtinfo5
> 5.9+20140712-2
> 
> parted recommends no packages.
> 
> Versions of packages parted suggests: pn  parted-doc  <none>
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 
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