Bug?

[Klaus Maisinger]

Hi there,

I got the following output from an attempt to resize a partition with
parted version 1.2.12  running RH7.0 binaries from rawhide:

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(parted) print
Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0-9671.5 megabytes
Minor   Start     End    Type            Filesystem     Flags
1          0.0   1600.2  primary         FAT
2       1600.2   1725.7  primary         linux-swap
3       1725.7   9248.4  extended                       boot
5       1725.8   1882.6  logical         ext2           boot
6       1882.6   4384.9  logical         ext2
7       4385.0   6385.2  logical         ext2
8       6385.2   8997.3  logical         ext2
9       8997.4   9248.4  logical         ext2
4       9248.4   9664.1  primary         linux-swap
(parted) resize 1 0.0 800.
Error: The FATs aren't big enough to describe all clusters!  Each FAT is
200 sectors.  There are 51199clusters, which would require each FAT to be
200 sectors.  This is REALLY weird.  You might want to
write us an email: address@hidden

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Version 1.2.8's error message was even more drastic:

(parted) resize 1 0. 801.
You found a bug in GNU Parted.  Please email a bug report to
address@hidden containing the version (1.2.8), and the following
message:

Assertion (ft->cluster_count + 2 <= ft->size) at table.c:103 in function
fat_table_count_stats()
failed.
Ignore Cancel ? C
You found a bug in GNU Parted.  Please email a bug report to
address@hidden containing the version (1.2.8), and the following
message:

Assertion (ft->cluster_count + 2 <= ft->size) at table.c:103 in function
fat_table_count_stats()
failed.
Ignore Cancel ? C
Warning: The file \IO.DOS is marked as a system file.  This means moving
it could cause some programs to stop working.
Ignore Cancel ? C


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The hard drive's history:

If I remember this correctly, I used parted successfully a while ago to
decrease hda1 to make more space for the swap partition.
Since then I also ran Win95's disk fragmenter on hda1.


Cheers,
Klaus