Re: parted-1.8.x unusable - gives 'unrecognised disk label'. parted 1.7.1 does not.

[Jim Meyering]

Graham Keeling <address@hidden> wrote:
> When I install versions of parted between 1.8.0 and 1.8.8 (I've tested 1.8.0,
> 1.8.7 and 1.8.8), I get the following and therefore cannot do anything useful
> with it:
>
> ----------------
> GNU Parted 1.8.8
> Using /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/disc
> Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
> (parted) p
> Error: /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/disc: unrecognised disk label
> (parted)
> ----------------
>
> When I install parted-1.7.1, it works fine:
>
> ----------------
> GNU Parted 1.7.1
> Using /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/disc
> Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
> (parted) p
>
> Disk /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/disc: 200GB
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
> Partition Table: msdos
>
> Number  Start   End     Size    Type      File system  Flags
>  1      32.3kB  526MB   526MB   primary   ext3         boot
>  2      526MB   200GB   200GB   extended
>  5      526MB   666MB   140MB   logical   ext3
>  6      666MB   806MB   140MB   logical   linux-swap
>  7      806MB   10.8GB  10.0GB  logical   ext3
>  8      10.8GB  200GB   189GB   logical   ext3

Thanks for the report!
That sounds like a regression.
Please send me the first few KB of data from it (raw),
and I'll look at it.  E.g., run this

dd if=/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/disc of=/tmp/parted-head count=4

then mail the output as an attachment.