Comment 3 for bug 8322

http://lwn.net/Articles/86835/ is also useful reading.

This issue was fixed upstream in parted 1.6.12; however, that introduces ABI
incompatibility, so it's best not to introduce it at this time. Debian's parted
package includes a backported patch for this bug, and the patch applies cleanly
to the version in warty. The attached patch should therefore be a fix.

Jeff/Matt, what do you think about uploading this at this point? I think we have
to fix this bug one way or the other before the final warty release, so it's
only a question of the invasiveness of the fix, and backporting this single
patch seems least invasive.

I've put a CD containing this patch at
http://people.ubuntulinux.org/~cjwatson/warty-i386-new-parted.iso, and would
like feedback from people affected by the bug.