Re: assertion failure (160GB HD, single FAT32 resize to 110GB, extern USB drive)

[K.G.]

On Wed, 7 Sep 2005 13:05:23 +0200 Sebastian Seifert <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> parted asked me to report an assertion failure, which happenened while
> trying to resize a 160GB FAT32 partition on a 160Gb external USB drive
> to 110GB.
> 
> My partition table:
> 
> eden:/mnt# fdisk -l /dev/sda
> 
> Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>    /dev/sda1               1       19457   156288321    c  W95 FAT32
>    (LBA)
> 
> My parted session:
> 
> eden:/mnt# parted /dev/sda
> GNU Parted 1.6.23
> Copyright (C) 1998 - 2005 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.
> 
> Using /dev/sda
> (parted) p                                                                
> Disk geometry for /dev/sda: 0kB - 160GB
> Disk label type: msdos
> Number  Start   End     Size    Type      File system  Flags
> 1       32kB    160GB   160GB   primary   fat32        lba
> (parted) resize 1
> Start?  [32kB]?                                                           
> End?  [160GB]? 110GB
> 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 (1.6.23), and the following
> message:
> 
> Assertion (geom != NULL) at ../../libparted/geom.c:100 in function
> ped_geometry_destroy()
> failed.
> Ignore/Cancel?    
> 
> My kernel:
> 
> eden:/mnt# uname -a
> Linux eden 2.6.13-ck1 #2 Wed Aug 31 03:50:27 CEST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
> 
> I'm using parted-1.6.23-3 from Debian testing.
> 
> Sebastian

Hello,

Can you still reproduce that bug, and if yes can you try with Parted 1.6.24 ?

Thanks,
Guillaume Knispel