[Parted-maintainers] Bug#418704: parted does not show existing partitions

[Colin Watson]

tags 418704 patch
user ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
usertags 418704 ubuntu-patch intrepid
thanks

On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 01:56:28PM +0200, Henrik Brautaset Aronsen wrote:
> Parted does not show my partitions at all, and lists the partition table as
> "loop".  Other partition software I've tried does not have problems with the
> hard drive.
> 
> This is my hard drive, with fdisk v2.12r:
> 
> Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders, total 156301488 sectors
> Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1              63       96389       48163+  de  Dell Utility
> /dev/hda2   *       96390    61448624    30676117+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda3        61448625   154175804    46363590   83  Linux
> /dev/hda4       154175805   156280319     1052257+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
> 
> 
> And with parted v1.8.1 (no different from v1.7.1):
> 
> Model: HTS721080G9AT00 (ide)
> Disk /dev/hda: 80,0GB
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
> Partition Table: loop
> 
> Number  Start  End     Size    File system  Flags
>  1      0,00B  80,0GB  80,0GB  fat16             
[...]
> The bug is also listed in parted's bug tracking:
> http://parted.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/ticket/14

I sent a patch for this to parted-devel yesterday (linked from the trac
ticket above). Jim Meyering seemed to generally agree with my analysis,
confirmed that my patch worked, and said "I'll probably push your patch
tomorrow".

I've just uploaded this change to Ubuntu intrepid, and have attached the
dpatch you need to this mail (it required a bit of backporting work to
work properly with 1.7.1).

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]