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

[Phil Susi]

On 6/17/2015 1:24 PM, A Mennucc1 wrote:
> here is the MBR.

You forgot to attach the file.

> 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.

Not a bad idea.