On 18 April 2017 at 17:23, Phil Susi <ps...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > On 12/19/2016 7:19 AM, Bjørn Forsman wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> [My name is Bjørn Forsman, end user of parted, I'm using parted as my >> primary partitioning tool.] >> >> When I run parted (latest version, 3.2) on an ISO file, it gets >> confused about the block size: >> >> $ parted ubuntu-16.04-desktop-amd64.iso p >> WARNING: You are not superuser. Watch out for permissions. >> Warning: The driver descriptor says the physical block size is 2048 >> bytes, but Linux says it is 512 bytes. >> Ignore/Cancel? > > This is because the image contains a mac partition table using a block > size of 2048 bytes since the image is meant to go on a cdrom, which has > a sector size of 2048 bytes. > >> If I select "Ignore", it misinterprets the size and the partition table: >> >> Model: (file) >> Disk /home/bfo/Downloads/ubuntu-16.04-desktop-amd64.iso: 5944MB >> Sector size (logical/physical): 2048B/512B >> Partition Table: mac >> Disk Flags: >> >> Number Start End Size File system Name Flags >> 1 2048B 6143B 4096B Apple >> 2 1479MB 1481MB 2425kB EFI > > No; that is correctly interpreting the partition table.
Ok. Maybe I was wrong about the parition table (don't know what I expected). But the size of the image (5944MB) is wrong. The real file is 1.5GB. Best regards, Bjørn Forsman
