bug#18984: Antw: Re: bug#18984: Enhancement request: Handling, of damaged partition tables

2014-11-11 Thread Rod Smith
On 11/11/2014 12:01 PM, ps...@ubuntu.com wrote: I've known for some time that Windows is stupid and doesn't care about overlapping partitions. What I still can't figure out is how people sometimes manage to create them. Have you ever used partition magic on this disk? What other partitioning

bug#18984: Antw: Re: bug#18984: Enhancement request: Handling of damaged partition tables

2014-11-11 Thread Phillip Susi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/11/2014 2:57 AM, Ulrich Windl wrote: dE schrieb am 08.11.2014 um 06:25 in Nachricht > <545da93a.4090...@gmail.com>: [...] >> Can you provide a screenshot of Windows disk management utility? > > You'll have to cope with the German Vers

bug#18984: Antw: Re: bug#18984: Enhancement request: Handling of damaged partition tables

2014-11-10 Thread Ulrich Windl
>>> 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

bug#18984: Enhancement request: Handling of damaged partition tables

2014-11-10 Thread Phillip Susi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/7/2014 10:12 AM, Ulrich Windl wrote: > I have a system that features a damaged partition table for an 1TB > disk with 4kB sectors. While Windows 7 boot without any complaint, > and diskpart is happy, GNU parted doesn't display the existing > part

bug#18984: Enhancement request: Handling of damaged partition tables

2014-11-07 Thread Brian C. Lane
On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 04:12:22PM +0100, Ulrich Windl wrote: > (This is a re-send of the message (extracted from the mail queue) dated Fri, > 07 Nov 2014 14:38:39 +0100, because that message took the wrong mailer and is > stuck in the queue) > Hi! > > As the web-based bug reporting is still bro

bug#18984: Enhancement request: Handling of damaged partition tables

2014-11-07 Thread Ulrich Windl
(This is a re-send of the message (extracted from the mail queue) dated Fri, 07 Nov 2014 14:38:39 +0100, because that message took the wrong mailer and is stuck in the queue) Hi! As the web-based bug reporting is still broken, I'm mailing instead: I have a system that features a damaged partiti