Re: Need for a unique Linux GPT GUID type code (PATCH included)

2011-06-24 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 06/24/2011 07:13 AM, jdd wrote: > Le 24/06/2011 02:14, Rod Smith a écrit : > > 7, using something other than the Microsoft Basic Data GUID code does >> hide the partition from the Computer window, and the Disk Management >> tool grays out the option to format the volume. Feel free to > > I j

Re: Need for a unique Linux GPT GUID type code (PATCH included)

2011-06-24 Thread jdd
Le 24/06/2011 11:45, Bryn M. Reeves a écrit : I would expect that (in the same way as I would expect our tools to be able to remove partitions containing unknown Windows file systems even if they cannot do anything useful with them). my linux, at least, identify correctly the filesystem inclu

Re: parted crash accessing GPT table

2011-06-24 Thread Jim Meyering
Daniel Fandrich wrote: > parted 3.0 crashes for me when accessing the attached EFI partition table > with the following crash log. This was compiled on an ubuntu 11.04 x86_64 > Linux system. ... > Assertion (last_usable <= disk->dev->length) at gpt.c:727 in function > _parse_header() failed. Thank

invalid diagnostic, FYI

2011-06-24 Thread Jim Meyering
Reading a truncated GPT partition table, I saw this: $ ./parted bad WARNING: You are not superuser. Watch out for permissions. GNU Parted 3.0.3-5a86 Using /h/j/w/co/parted/6/parted/bad Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands. (parted) u s p Error: end of file w

Re: parted crash accessing GPT table

2011-06-24 Thread Daniel Fandrich
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 04:20:29PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: > Thank you for the complete bug report. > Here's the patch I'm about to push: Thanks for looking at that problem so quickly. That patch does stop the crash on that file presumably by rejecting all the partitions. Since sending that las