(I discovered this old message being unsent for over a year; maybe it's still
relevant; I didn't re-check)
Hi!
When creating GPT partitions, wrong GUIDs are assigned to the partition type:
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> /usr/sbin/parted /tmp/gpt.img
WARNING: You are not superuser. Watch out for permissions.
GNU Parted 2
>>> Håkon Løvdal schrieb am 21.11.2014 um 17:02 in
Nachricht
:
> On 21 November 2014 08:50, Ulrich Windl
> wrote:
>> GNU Parted 2.3 creates an invalid Protective MBR (for a 3MB test image):
>
> Hi. Version 2.3 is quite old, can you reproduce this with the latest
>
It turned out that UEFI spec 2.4 states the Partition Entry Array should be at
least 16kB (which is nonsense, because they should better define the number of
entries) which gives 128 Entries.
However why have all those flexible data structures if the number of Pertition
Entries is fixed?
I still
GNU Parted 2.3 creates an invalid Protective MBR (for a 3MB test image):
--
hexdump -C gptgood
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ||
*
01c0 01 00 ee fe ff ff 01 00 00 00 ff 17 00 00 00 00 ||
01d0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
This is halfway a bug and halfway an enhancement:
parted's "mkpart gpt" always creates a Partition Entry Array with 128 entries.
It may be due to misunderstanding the UEFI docs that state the size of the
partition entry should be a multiple of 128.
At the moment the Partition Entry Table needs 16
When you type "mkpart p" in parted 3.2, "p" is completed to "print" which
makes no sense (expected was "primary") according to help:
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(parted) help mkpart
mkpart PART-TYPE [FS-TYPE] START END make a partition
PART-TYPE is one of:
Hello,
after having created a new GPT partitioning on a HP rx6600 (that is going to
retire), trying to install Linux failed, because the partitioning is not
detected by parted 2.3 (the version used in the SLES11 SP3 installation):
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Rescue:~ # parted /dev/sda
GNU Parted 2.3
Using /dev/sda
Welc
>>> Phillip Susi schrieb am 10.11.2014 um 19:15 in Nachricht
<546100aa.1050...@ubuntu.com>:
[...]
>> 1) Instead of saying "Can't have a partition outside the disk!"
>> say _which_ partition you think is outside the disk, and say _why_
>> you think so.
>
> I suppose that could be nice, though when
talled) says about
the partitions (partition number, offset, size):
0, 296 GB, 635 GB
1, 1024 GB, 96 GB
2, 96 GB, 200 GB
3, 796 GB, 100GB
4, 296GB, 296GB * (Boot Partition)
5, 596GB, 200GB
6, 896GB, 35GB
(I have no idea how Microsoft numbers the partitions)
It would be great if parted could not only complain, but also suggest
how to fix the problems detected, just like fsck does for years.
Regards,
Ulrich Windl
Hi!
This appeared when trying to report a bug for GNU parted using
http://parted.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/newticket :
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Oops...
Trac detected an internal error: No module named _md5
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/var/lib/gforge/chroot/home/groups/parted/cgi-bin/trac.cgi
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