Package: parted Version: 1.7.1-5.1 Severity: normal
There are several problems with parted on intel macs. First, these have actually two partitions tables, GPT and MBR. Unlike *fdisk parted displays the GPT partition and allows to edit it. However, it removes partition from both tables but only adds them to GPT so the two tables have to be synchronized with other tools. Also the partition that is created with parted has the flag 'msftres' that cannot be removed. This flag makes most OS X tools ignore the partition. This is probably caused by parted setting the type of the partition to MS Reserved. The type cannot be displayed or changed in parted, or at least I could not figure out which command would at least display it. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-2-486 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages parted depends on: ii libc6 2.6-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libncurses5 5.6+20070716-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libparted1.7-1 1.7.1-5.1 The GNU Parted disk partitioning s ii libreadline5 5.2-3 GNU readline and history libraries parted recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]