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Re: with a raid0 disk - "Can't have a partition outside the disk"
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Peter Maloney |
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Re: with a raid0 disk - "Can't have a partition outside the disk" |
Date: |
Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:27:18 +0100 |
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$ sudo parted/parted --version
parted (GNU parted) 3.0
Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Written by
<http://git.debian.org/?p=parted/parted.git;a=blob_plain;f=AUTHORS>.
$ sudo parted/parted -s /dev/sdb unit s print
Error: Can't have a partition outside the disk!
Model: ATA ST31000528AS (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 1953525168s
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: unknown
Also tried with a loop device. (this .img file is attached to this email
so you can test/debug)
$ sudo dd if=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=16 of=raidmbr.img
16+0 records in
16+0 records out
8192 bytes (8.2 kB) copied, 0.000697728 s, 11.7 MB/s
$ sudo losetup /dev/loop0 raidmbr.img
$ sudo parted/parted -s /dev/loop0 unit s print
Error: Can't have a partition outside the disk!
Model: (file)
Disk /dev/loop0: 16s
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: unknown
On 02/27/2012 08:36 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Peter Maloney wrote:
>> Problem:
>>
>> I tried to print the partition table of the first disk in a raid0 set
>> (using the raw disk rather than a RAID device), expecting the partitions
>> to be displayed with the partition outside the disk, but instead parted
>> refuses to work:
>>
>> # parted -s /dev/sdd unit s print
>> Error: Can't have a partition outside the disk!
>>
>> It is clearly not an error. And in my case it is even a read only
>> operation, which would not even have any side effects if something
> Thanks for the report.
> Which version of parted are you using?
>
> If it's not 3.0, can you see if the problem persists when
> using that newer version?
>
> ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/parted-3.0.tar.xz
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