Re: "partition outside the disk" error on Apple Partition Map

2010-12-31 Thread Bernie Innocenti
On Fri, 2010-12-31 at 16:49 +0100, Jim Meyering wrote: > Thank you for the report. > Two sectors (1KB) is almost enough. > If you could send a little more, I'll take a look. > If there are 4 partitions or fewer, 1.5KB is enough. > If you have more than 4 partitions, then you > might as well send se

Re: "partition outside the disk" error on Apple Partition Map

2010-12-31 Thread Jim Meyering
Bernie Innocenti wrote: > I attached a USB enclosure containing a 160MB PATA disk formatted with > an Apple Partition Map and got this error: > > --8<---8<---8<---8<---8<-- > GNU Parted 2.3 > Using /dev/sdc > Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view

Re: dump and restore disk label

2010-12-31 Thread Jim Meyering
Harald Dunkel wrote: > I would like to dump and restore a disk label, independent > from the label type. Looking at the documentation it seems that > parted doesn't support this yet. Do you think it could be > added? It would be a useful new feature. Others have requested it, too. > dd does take