Package: parted Version: 1.7.1-2.1 Followup-For: Bug #379405 I can fully acknowledge the existence of this bug. It seems to be reproducible.
Furthermore, I think this bug may deserve a severity of "important",
as an only seemingly empty partition table might lead to severe data
loss, as the user, misled by the wrong output of parted, assumes the
partition to be empty and feels safe to manipulate it arbitrarily.
Setup
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* PII/400 (Tyan board with BX chipset, 640 MB non-ECC RAM)
* Adaptec ASC-29160 U160-SCSI hostadapter with two U2W-drives attached:
/dev/sda - Seagate ST39173LC (9 GB), ID #9
/dev/sdb - Quantum Viking VK4550J (4 GB, SUN labeled), ID #10
Hostadapter firmware version 2.57.0
* Adaptec AHA-3940 dual channel SCSI hostadapter with nothing attached,
firmware version 1.12
* System: Debian Etch
Symptom
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parted does not display the partition table of /dev/sdb, if unit is
"mb", "gb" or "tb" (the workaround mentioned in #369583 often, but
not always works). For units "b" and "kb", the partition table is
correctly shown. Examples:
Bytes:
# parted /dev/sdb unit b print
Disk /dev/sdb: 4293181951B
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 32256B 1011709439B 1011677184B primary ext3
2 1011709440B 4285370879B 3273661440B primary ext3
Information: Don't forget to update /etc/fstab, if necessary.
Megabytes:
# parted /dev/sdb unit mb print
Disk /dev/sdb: 4293MB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Information: Don't forget to update /etc/fstab, if necessary.
CHS geometry of both drives:
# parted /dev/sda unit chs print
Disk /dev/sda: 1106,243,40
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
BIOS cylinder,head,sector geometry: 1106,255,63. Each cylinder is 8225kB.
Partition Table: msdos
[...]
# parted /dev/sdb unit chs print
Disk /dev/sdb: 521,242,9
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
BIOS cylinder,head,sector geometry: 521,255,63. Each cylinder is 8225kB.
Partition Table: msdos
[...]
In case that the partition tables get misinterpreted by parted or
contains data that confuses it, I've attached the MBRs of both drives
to this bug report, created by
dd if=/dev/sda of=sda.mbr bs=512 count=1 # and sdb, respectively
Besides the respective partition table, sda.mbr contains a GRUB, and
sdb.mbr either a LILO or GRUB boot loader.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Versions of packages parted depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libncurses5 5.5-2 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libparted1.7-1 1.7.1-2.1 The GNU Parted disk partitioning s
ii libreadline5 5.1-7 GNU readline and history libraries
parted recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
sda.mbr
Description: Binary data
sdb.mbr
Description: Binary data
