Re: Parted 1.6.23 - problem with resizing of the extended partition

[Vlado Potisk]

> Here is a patch
> Vlado you can test it, and if everybody think it is good i'll apply it
> to CVS.

Thank you for the patch, it looks good. No error messages and the computation 
results for the partition #5 (which were causing trouble) are:
  cyl_size=16065
  head_size=63
i.e. correct according to Andrew's earlier post.


Unfortunately the resize problem is still here:

(parted) unit s                                                           
(parted) print                                                            
Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0s - 78165359s
Disk label type: msdos
Number  Start   End     Size    Type      File system  Flags
1       63s     7807589s 7807527s primary   ext3         boot
2       7807590s 8305604s 498015s primary   linux-swap   
4       8305605s 66043214s 57737610s extended               
5       8305668s 10410119s 2104452s logical   ext3         
6       10410183s 12514634s 2104452s logical   ext3         
7       12514698s 22474934s 9960237s logical   ext3         
8       22474998s 66043214s 43568217s logical   ext3         
(parted) resize 4 8305605s 78165359s                                      
You found a bug in GNU Parted.  Please email a bug report to 
address@hidden containing the version (1.6.23), and the following 
message:

Assertion (dev != NULL) at geom.c:48 in function ped_geometry_new() failed.
Ignore/Cancel?



Best regards,

        Vlado