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

[A Mennucc1]

here is the MBR.

I also have a proposal. When parted opens a disk, it should both check
if the whole disk is formatted as a VFAT (or other) volume, and check if
there is a partition table of some kind. In case that both checks are
true, it should stop and warn the user that the disk structure is
ambiguous, and ask for instructions.

    a.

Il 15/06/2015 15:31, Phil Susi ha scritto:
> 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.


-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 819 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-maintainers/attachments/20150617/8b548cc2/attachment.sig>