On Tuesday 26 August 2008 03:14:32 am Jim Meyering wrote:
> Bjorn Helgaas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > [I tried to submit this via Trac, but it said "500 Internal Server Error
> > (Submission rejected as potential spam)"].
> >
> > I also tried to debug this with gdb, but the parted I built complains
> > like this:
>
> Sometimes it's easier to debug if you configure like this:
>
> ./configure --enable-debug --disable-shared CFLAGS=-g
>
> > $ /usr/local/sbin/parted ../rhel5.2-image
> > /usr/local/sbin/parted: error while loading shared libraries:
> > libparted-1.8.so.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
> > directory
>
> > ... I used dd to copy the first 5GB of /dev/sda to the file rhel5.2-image.
> >
> > The GPT scheme keeps a secondary copy of the partition table at the
> > end of the disk. My rhel5.2-image file is obviously missing that,
> > since it only contains the first 5GB of the disk image. That might
> > explain this assertion failure.
>
> Yes, that is probably the root of the problem.
> The assertion is Parted's way of warning you that your
> disk/partition table is corrupted in a surprising/unusual way.
> Can you suggest a better way to handle this sort of failure?
My preference would be:
- Since there's a valid GPT at the beginning of the image, and only
the secondary copy is missing, warn that the secondary copy is
missing or corrupted and continue.
Or maybe:
- Give me a chance to update the GPT and generate a new valid
secondary copy at a different location (my image is large
enough to hold all defined partitions).
Or even just:
- Complain that the partition table is corrupted and exit gracefully.
As it is, parted really doesn't tell me what the problem is or
give any clues about how I might fix it. I'm just making guesses
based on how I created the disk image.
I know this is an unusual situation, and I basically shot myself
in the foot, so I wasn't too surprised to run into problems. I just
think partitioning is such a critical thing that it's nice if the
tools can deal with and help you recover from problems. For
example, parted probably can already deal with a complete image in
which one of the GPT copies is corrupted. This is just a slightly
different sort of corruption.
Bjorn
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