Comment 7 for bug 710696

sudo parted /dev/sdg unit s print

Backtrace has 13 calls on stack:
  13: /lib/libparted.so.0(ped_assert+0x31) [0x7f24b01845c1]
  12: /lib/libparted.so.0(+0x393b6) [0x7f24b01af3b6]
  11: /lib/libparted.so.0(+0x39b33) [0x7f24b01afb33]
  10: /lib/libparted.so.0(+0x3a7ed) [0x7f24b01b07ed]
  9: /lib/libparted.so.0(ped_disk_add_partition+0x1cb) [0x7f24b018ad3b]
  8: /lib/libparted.so.0(+0x3bd34) [0x7f24b01b1d34]
  7: /lib/libparted.so.0(+0x3bf25) [0x7f24b01b1f25]
  6: /lib/libparted.so.0(ped_disk_new+0x75) [0x7f24b018b815]
  5: parted() [0x40698e]
  4: parted(non_interactive_mode+0x8c) [0x40c7cc]
  3: parted(main+0x63) [0x40ab13]
  2: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfe) [0x7f24af98cd8e]
  1: parted() [0x404fa9]

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Assertion (head_size <= 63) at ../../../libparted/labels/dos.c:662 in function
probe_partition_for_geom() failed.

Aborted