Problem: parted coredump when partition incorrect. parted version : 2.4 OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 3) Kernel: 2.6.32 Description: [root@hostname ~]# parted -s /dev/sdg u s p Backtrace has 14 calls on stack: 14: parted(ped_assert+0x45) [0x413635] 13: parted(ped_geometry_read+0x96) [0x41a276] 12: parted(ped_geometry_read_alloc+0x54) [0x41a2e4] 11: parted(nilfs2_probe+0x6e) [0x4210de] 10: parted(ped_file_system_probe_specific+0x43) [0x4148c3] 9: parted(ped_file_system_probe+0x5b) [0x41498b] 8: parted [0x429a53] 7: parted [0x429c45] 6: parted(ped_disk_new+0x55) [0x419325] 5: parted [0x40c56f] 4: parted(non_interactive_mode+0x82) [0x412f42] 3: parted(main+0x64) [0x410454] 2: /lib64/tls/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xdb) [0x302af1c4bb] 1: parted [0x40abfa] Aborted (core dumped)
Try using fdisk to figure out [root@hostname ~]# fdisk -l /dev/sdg Disk /dev/sdg: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdg1 1 121601 976760001 83 Linux /dev/sdg2 121602 121602 0+ 83 Linux +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Disk information: +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Seagate Constellation ES (SATA) Device Model: ST31000524NS Serial Number: 9WK0XEJY LU WWN Device Id: 5 000c50 0269c1ae1 Firmware Version: SN11 User Capacity: 1,000,204,886,016 bytes [1.00 TB] Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
