bug with parted

[Leyba, Isabel x66131]

Hello,

This is the first time that I use parted, so I'm not sure how valid this is.  I was just wanting to check how much free space was

left on the disk to create a new ext3 filesytem.  I'm runnin linux 2.1

address@hidden db2bkp]# parted /dev/sda4
Warning: Device /dev/sda4 is neither a SCSI nor IDE drive.
Ignore Cancel ? Ignore
GNU Parted 1.4.16
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Using /dev/sda4
(parted) help
  check MINOR                   do a simple check on the filesystem
  cp [FROM-DEVICE] FROM-MINOR TO-MINOR      copy filesystem to another partition
  help [COMMAND]                prints general help, or help on COMMAND
  mklabel LABEL-TYPE            create a new disklabel (partition table)
  mkfs MINOR FS-TYPE            make a filesystem FS-TYPE on partititon MINOR
  mkpart PART-TYPE [FS-TYPE] START END      make a partition
  mkpartfs PART-TYPE FS-TYPE START END      make a partition with a filesystem
  move MINOR START [END]          move partition MINOR
  name MINOR NAME               name partition MINOR NAME
  print                         display the partition table
  quit                          exit program
  resize MINOR START END        resize filesystem on partition MINOR
  rm MINOR                      delete partition MINOR
  select DEVICE                 choose the device to edit
  set MINOR FLAG STATE          change a flag on partition MINOR
(parted) print
You found a bug in GNU Parted.  Please email a bug report to address@hidden containing the version (1.4.16), and the following message:

Assertion (walk->geom.length > 5 * disk->dev->sectors) at disk.c:1088 in function _disk_check_sanity() failed.
Ignore Cancel ? Cancel
Error: Can't have a partition outside the disk!
You found a bug in GNU Parted.  Please email a bug report to address@hidden containing the version (1.4.16), and the following message:

Assertion (walk->geom.length > 5 * disk->dev->sectors) at disk.c:1088 in function _disk_check_sanity() failed.
Ignore Cancel ? quit
Ignore Cancel ? Cancel
Error: Can't have a partition outside the disk!
You found a bug in GNU Parted.  Please email a bug report to address@hidden containing the version (1.4.16), and the following message:

Assertion (walk->geom.length > 5 * disk->dev->sectors) at disk.c:1088 in function _disk_check_sanity() failed.

- Isabel

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