parted refuses to work with a partition that goes beyond the end of disk
Bug #96976 reported by
dan
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #366282: partitions that overflow disk not handled gracefully.
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Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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GParted |
Fix Released
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Critical
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parted (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
(g)parted can not work with a disk that has a partition that goes beyond the end of the disk. It should report the problem, but allow you to ignore and so you can use parted to correct the issue instead of fdisk.
Changed in parted: | |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in parted: | |
importance: | Unknown → Critical |
status: | New → Fix Released |
affects: | parted → gparted |
Changed in parted (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
summary: |
- gparted shows empty disk + parted refuses to work with a partition that goes beyond the end of disk |
Changed in parted (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Medium → Wishlist |
description: | updated |
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sudo fdisk -l
Disque /dev/sda: 37.6 Go, 37688437248 octets
255 têtes, 63 secteurs/piste, 4582 cylindres
Unités = cylindres de 16065 * 512 = 8225280 octets
Périphérique Amorce Début Fin Blocs Id Système
/dev/sda1 * 1 637 5116671 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 638 1245 4883760 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 1246 1853 4883760 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 1854 4864 24185857+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 4800 4864 522112+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 1854 4799 23663682 83 Linux