[parted-devel] "Error: Can't have a partition outside the disk!"

Brian C. Lane bcl at redhat.com
Thu Sep 16 00:06:10 UTC 2010


On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 03:27:59PM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote:
> On 9/15/2010 11:47 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> > Hi Rich,
> > 
> > What is your use case?  It seems rather unusual
> 
> We get plenty of reports from users getting this or similar errors at
> the Ubuntu forums and bug tracker.  Somehow something goes slightly
> wrong with the partition table, and parted and gparted refuse to show or

Do you have any more details on this? It seems to me that whatever is
mangling partitions tables should be fixed, not removing error checks in
parted.

Brian

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Brian C. Lane / Anaconda Team
Port Orchard, WA (PST8PDT)
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