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| From: | Fred Finster |
| Subject: | Re: Verbatim USB $GB drive crashes libparted |
| Date: | Fri, 4 Mar 2011 23:38:47 -0800 (PST) |
| My letter March 4, 2011 Mr. Brian Lane, thanks for your efforts in updating "parted" to deal with these new Bone Headed USB Flash disks with the "different" FAT32 tables. Yes, I can overwrite present fat32 table with zeros and then create a new FAT32 partition table as detailed in a past email message. http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg03310.html Quote " re-formatting the device will solve this. The problem is that you cannotEnd Quote" When this brand new 4GB Verbatim USB Flash disk, error out from using gparted version 1.8 on the recent 5.20 puppylinux http://www.puppylinux.org , I wanted to compile the latest version of parted 2.3 to see if it the coding that you added could deal with the broken/bad/boneheaded FAT32 partition table and at least print out the CHS figures, then be able to delete that partition, and create a new replacement partition that was more sane. Basically test "parted" on some Bad Fat Table Data. I pass on my test answers to you directly, I will also work at posting them to the mailing list too. Yes, I realize that I might have compiled the wrong source files or made some other simple linking wrong library mistake, such that my compiled "parted" is broken and not working but that your testing "parted" works correctly as you wish it to, with a BAD FAT32 partition table. So below find my results. Read them with a grain of salt. I might have created the erroneous results. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kliktel-Mint parted # ./parted GNU Parted 2.3.85-dff6 Using /dev/sda Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands. (parted) version GNU Parted 2.3.85-dff6 Copyright (C) 1998 - 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. (parted) select /dev/sda Using /dev/sda (parted) print Model: ATA ST340014A (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 40.0GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 32.3kB 15.7GB 15.7GB primary ext3 3 15.7GB 19.2GB 3488MB primary ext3 boot 2 19.2GB 40.0GB 20.8GB extended 6 19.2GB 37.6GB 18.4GB logical ext4 boot 7 37.6GB 38.5GB 847MB logical linux-swap(v1) 5 38.5GB 40.0GB 1530MB logical linux-swap(v1) (parted) select /dev/sdc Using /dev/sdc (parted) print Model: (scsi) Disk /dev/sdc: 128MB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 16.4kB 128MB 128MB primary fat16 boot (parted) select /dev/sdb Using /dev/sdb (parted) print Backtrace has 14 calls on stack: 14: /home/fredf/Downloads/gparted/parted/libparted/.libs/libparted.so.0(ped_assert+0x2a) [0xabf88a] 13: /home/fredf/Downloads/gparted/parted/libparted/.libs/libparted.so.0 [0xaf57a7] 12: /home/fredf/Downloads/gparted/parted/libparted/.libs/libparted.so.0 [0xaf65d7] 11: /home/fredf/Downloads/gparted/parted/libparted/.libs/libparted.so.0 [0xaf787c] 10: /home/fredf/Downloads/gparted/parted/libparted/.libs/libparted.so.0 [0xac4171] 9: /home/fredf/Downloads/gparted/parted/libparted/.libs/libparted.so.0(ped_disk_add_partition+0x292) [0xac7a32] 8: /home/fredf/Downloads/gparted/parted/libparted/.libs/libparted.so.0 [0xaf92c5] 7: /home/fredf/Downloads/gparted/parted/libparted/.libs/libparted.so.0 [0xaf94cf] 6: /home/fredf/Downloads/gparted/parted/libparted/.libs/libparted.so.0(ped_disk_new+0x75) [0xac87e5] 5: /home/fredf/Downloads/gparted/parted/parted/.libs/lt-parted [0x804e3f8] 4: /home/fredf/Downloads/gparted/parted/parted/.libs/lt-parted(interactive_mode+0x11a) [0x80560ea] 3: /home/fredf/Downloads/gparted/parted/parted/.libs/lt-parted(main+0x9c) [0x805308c] 2: /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6) [0x531b56] 1: /home/fredf/Downloads/gparted/parted/parted/.libs/lt-parted [0x804c441] You found a bug in GNU Parted! Here's what you have to do: Don't panic! The bug has most likely not affected any of your data. Help us to fix this bug by doing the following: Check whether the bug has already been fixed by checking the last version of GNU Parted that you can find at: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/ Please check this version prior to bug reporting. If this has not been fixed yet or if you don't know how to check, please visit the GNU Parted website: http://www.gnu.org/software/parted for further information. Your report should contain the version of this release (2.3.85-dff6) along with the error message below, the output of parted DEVICE unit co print unit s print and the following history of commands you entered. Also include any additional information about your setup you consider important. Assertion (head_size <= 63) at dos.c:736 in function probe_partition_for_geom() failed. Aborted Kliktel-Mint parted # ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I attached the dd created file of the partition table. dd if=/dev/sdb of=bad_gparted_16 bs=512 count=16 Yes, I know that count only needed to be 1 (one) 512 byte block of binary data, yet maybe there is more to see if write 16 (sixteen) 512 byte blocks of binary data? I felt/thought you could write this 16 block binary data to the beginning of your test device partition table. Then run your version of "parted" to see if parted works on this /bad/boneheaded data. Yes, I realize that I could zero out the first 512 bytes of the flash partition table and then go on about my business of creating a new partition. Right now I just wanted to test and see that the latest version of "parted" could work with the BAD data through print statements, then DELETE the BAD partition table, last create a new partition table. I hope this was not too wordy, Brian. Fred Finster WB7ODYfred ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Here was my git command and the following build commands git clone git://git.debian.org/git/parted/parted.git ./bootstrap ./configure --disable-device-mapper selected from message http://osdir.com/ml/bug-parted-gnu/2010-03/msg00003.html make make check ( I forgot to run as 'root', so only 14 of the 30 tests passed ). cd parted/parted ./parted ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A webpage describing creating GPT partitions using parted. Included as notes for a future need. I will test more this weekend. Whatever information you need send me an email to address@hidden I probably forgot to include some detail. Thanks again for your efforts, Brian Fred Finster WB7ODY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ RE-RUN of parted tests on 3 different devices. address@hidden ~/Downloads/gparted/parted/parted $ su root Password: ________________________________________ / Your lucky number is 3552664958674928. \ \ Watch for it everywhere. / ---------------------------------------- \ \ .--. |o_o | |:_/ | // \ \ (| | ) /'\_ _/`\ \___)=(___/ Kliktel-Mint parted # ./parted /dev/sdb unit co print unit s print Backtrace has 14 calls on stack: 14: /home/fredf/Downloads/gparted/parted/libparted/.libs/libparted.so.0(ped_assert+0x2a) [0xedf88a] 13: /home/fredf/Downloads/gparted/parted/libparted/.libs/libparted.so.0 [0xf157a7] 12: /home/fredf/Downloads/gparted/parted/libparted/.libs/libparted.so.0 [0xf165d7] 11: /home/fredf/Downloads/gparted/parted/libparted/.libs/libparted.so.0 [0xf1787c] 10: /home/fredf/Downloads/gparted/parted/libparted/.libs/libparted.so.0 [0xee4171] 9: /home/fredf/Downloads/gparted/parted/libparted/.libs/libparted.so.0(ped_disk_add_partition+0x292) [0xee7a32] 8: /home/fredf/Downloads/gparted/parted/libparted/.libs/libparted.so.0 [0xf192c5] 7: /home/fredf/Downloads/gparted/parted/libparted/.libs/libparted.so.0 [0xf194cf] 6: /home/fredf/Downloads/gparted/parted/libparted/.libs/libparted.so.0(ped_disk_new+0x75) [0xee87e5] 5: /home/fredf/Downloads/gparted/parted/parted/.libs/lt-parted [0x804e3f8] 4: /home/fredf/Downloads/gparted/parted/parted/.libs/lt-parted(non_interactive_mode+0x85) [0x8054c85] 3: /home/fredf/Downloads/gparted/parted/parted/.libs/lt-parted(main+0x6d) [0x805305d] 2: /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6) [0x690b56] 1: /home/fredf/Downloads/gparted/parted/parted/.libs/lt-parted [0x804c441] You found a bug in GNU Parted! Here's what you have to do: Don't panic! The bug has most likely not affected any of your data. Help us to fix this bug by doing the following: Check whether the bug has already been fixed by checking the last version of GNU Parted that you can find at: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/ Please check this version prior to bug reporting. If this has not been fixed yet or if you don't know how to check, please visit the GNU Parted website: http://www.gnu.org/software/parted for further information. Your report should contain the version of this release (2.3.85-dff6) along with the error message below, the output of parted DEVICE unit co print unit s print and the following history of commands you entered. Also include any additional information about your setup you consider important. Assertion (head_size <= 63) at dos.c:736 in function probe_partition_for_geom() failed. Aborted Kliktel-Mint parted # Kliktel-Mint parted # ./parted /dev/sdc unit co print unit s print Model: (scsi) Disk /dev/sdc: 128MB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 16.4kB 128MB 128MB primary fat16 boot Model: (scsi) Disk /dev/sdc: 250880s Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 32s 250879s 250848s primary fat16 boot Kliktel-Mint parted # Kliktel-Mint parted # ./parted /dev/sda unit co print unit s print Model: ATA ST340014A (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 40.0GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 32.3kB 15.7GB 15.7GB primary ext3 3 15.7GB 19.2GB 3488MB primary ext3 boot 2 19.2GB 40.0GB 20.8GB extended 6 19.2GB 37.6GB 18.4GB logical ext4 boot 7 37.6GB 38.5GB 847MB logical linux-swap(v1) 5 38.5GB 40.0GB 1530MB logical linux-swap(v1) Model: ATA ST340014A (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 78125000s Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 63s 30716279s 30716217s primary ext3 3 30716280s 37527839s 6811560s primary ext3 boot 2 37527840s 78124094s 40596255s extended 6 37527966s 73481309s 35953344s logical ext4 boot 7 73481373s 75136004s 1654632s logical linux-swap(v1) 5 75136068s 78124094s 2988027s logical linux-swap(v1) Kliktel-Mint parted # Kliktel-Mint parted # fdisk -l -u /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 3918 MB, 3918495744 bytes 10 heads, 10 sectors/track, 76533 cylinders, total 7653312 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0xc3072e18 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 8064 7653311 3822624 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) Kliktel-Mint parted # |
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