[Parted-maintainers] Bug#788808: parted: incorrectly reads partition table, or crashes

Phil Susi psusi at ubuntu.com
Mon Jun 15 13:31:20 UTC 2015


On 6/15/2015 5:06 AM, A Mennucc wrote:
> The partition table of this image file cannot be properly read or
> modified with parted. Older versions of parted crash on this image
> file. Newer versions report a the partition table is dangerously
> different from the real one, so an user that uses parted to change
> partitions may destroy all the data.

It seems that parted has decided that the MBR looks more like a FAT boot 
sector than an MBR.  Please attach the first kb of the image.



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