Ticket #14 (new defect)

Opened 3 years ago

Last modified 2 years ago

wrongly identify a 163.9G disk as a single fat16 partition

Reported by: grifis Assigned to:
Priority: major Milestone: 1.8.9
Component: libparted Version: 1.8.2
Keywords: fat16, wrong partitions Cc:

Description (Last modified by otavio)

I'm using GNU Parted 1.8.2 on Gentoo and amd64

- this is the correct fdisk output (i'm on linux now): 

$ fdisk -l /dev/hda

Disk /dev/hda: 163.9 GB, 163928604672 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19929 cylinders
Units = cilindri of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Dispositivo Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1           7       56196   83  Linux
/dev/hda2               8          70      506047+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda3              71       17412   139299615   83  Linux
/dev/hda4           17413       19929    20217802+  83  Linux

- this is the one reported with parted: 

(parted) p                                                                
Model: Maxtor 6Y160P0 (ide)
Disco /dev/hda: 164GB
Dimensione del settore (logica/fisica): 512B/512B
Tabella delle partizioni: loop

Numero  Inizio  Fine   Dimensione  File System  Flag
 1      0,00B   164GB  164GB       fat16

really strange, i cannot do anything with fat16(!)

- this is parted /dev/hda print unit s print unit chs print 

Model: Maxtor 6Y160P0 (ide)
Disco /dev/hda: 164GB
Dimensione del settore (logica/fisica): 512B/512B
Tabella delle partizioni: loop

Numero  Inizio  Fine   Dimensione  File System  Flag
 1      0,00B   164GB  164GB       fat16            

Model: Maxtor 6Y160P0 (ide)
Disco /dev/hda: 320173055s
Dimensione del settore (logica/fisica): 512B/512B
Tabella delle partizioni: loop

Numero  Inizio  Fine        Dimensione  File System  Flag
 1      0s      320173055s  320173056s  fat16            

Model: Maxtor 6Y160P0 (ide)
Disco /dev/hda: 19929,216,62
Dimensione del settore (logica/fisica): 512B/512B
Geometria del BIOS cilindri, testine, settori: 19929,255,63. Ogni cilindro ? 8225kB.
Tabella delle partizioni: loop

Numero  Inizio  Fine          File System  Flag
 1      0,0,0   19929,216,62  fat16

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Change History

10/20/07 19:09:29 changed by otavio

  • version changed from 1.8.1 to 1.8.2.
  • description changed.

10/20/07 19:21:43 changed by otavio

  • summary changed from Parted cannot find partitions and give a fat16 filesystem to wrongly identify a 163.9G disk as a single fat16 partition.

10/24/07 09:13:09 changed by monti

More info in #50 (which is a duplicate of this).

10/24/07 09:14:53 changed by monti

All previous info on this thread (with several reports) is in http://web.archive.org/web/20070530182235/http://parted.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/ticket/14

05/28/08 10:46:28 changed by cjwatson

This was reported at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/parted/+bug/232175, and I got a reproduction case from the user which is in that bug. I'll follow up in the mailing list thread starting from http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2008-May/002231.html.

05/28/08 11:13:35 changed by cjwatson

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2008-May/002243.html includes a proposed patch.

Add/Change #14 (wrongly identify a 163.9G disk as a single fat16 partition)




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