RE: bug creating ext2 partition with 1.4.11

[Matt_Domsch]

> (parted) print
> Disk geometry for /dev/sda: 0.000-17278.000 megabytes
> Disk label type: GPT
> Minor    Start       End     Filesystem  Name                  Flags
> 1          0.031    101.975                                   
>  boot, lba
> 2        101.975   2102.255                                    lba
> 3       2102.256   6330.300                                    lba
> 4       6330.300  10558.344                                    lba
> 5      10558.345  10817.204                                    lba
> 6      10817.205  11076.064                                    lba
> (parted) mkpart logical ext2 11076.065 17000.000
> You found a bug in GNU Parted.  Please email a bug report to
> address@hidden containing the version (1.4.11), and the following
> message:
> 
> Assertion (gpt_part_data != NULL) at interface.c:354 in function
> _ext2_set_system() failed.

1.4.16 doesn't fail like this.  Please try that with the GPT patch from
http://domsch.com/linux/parted.
Also, GPT partitions are always primary partitions, never logical.  You can
have 128 primary partitions (and theoretically an unlimited number, though
there's no good way to implement that in parted right now.  mklabel gpt 1000
or something? :-)

-Matt

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