Re: Bug in parted

[Andrew Clausen]

On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 06:13:03PM +0000, Rod Sheaff wrote:
> Dear friends,
> 
> Parted has asked me to send you the following bug report: 
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------
> 
> Information: The ext2 filesystem passed a basic check.  For a more 
> comprehensive
> check, use the e2fsck program.
> (parted) select /dev/hdb2
> You found a bug in GNU Parted.  Please email a bug report to 
> address@hidden containing the version (1.6.3), and the following message:
> 
> Assertion (dev->length > 0) at linux.c:675 in function init_file() failed.

You want to type "select /dev/hdb", not "select /dev/hdb2".

Unfortunately, it's sometimes useful to "select /dev/hdb2"...
I'm not sure what to do about this problem.

In any case, if the device length == 0, I guess that just means
it's a crazy device, so a message like:

"This device isn't big enough to have a partition table or a file
system.  You probably selected the wrong device."

Thanks,
Andrew