Ubuntu
gparted package

  1. Bug #545911
  2. Comment #24

Comment 24 for bug 545911

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Curtis Gedak (gedakc) wrote : Re: Cannot use gparted

My testing results of Phillip's patch can be found in the parted-devel mailing list:
[parted-devel] > 63 heads. Why does this keep coming up?
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2011-February/003806.html

Derek,
As you point out in comment #23, a work-around to this problem is to start with a new partition table. Of course if there was data on the disk device, one would want to back this up before writing a new partition table.