>>> Phillip Susi <ps...@ubuntu.com> schrieb am 10.11.2014 um 19:15 in Nachricht <546100aa.1050...@ubuntu.com>: [...] >> 1) Instead of saying "Can't have a partition outside the disk!" >> say _which_ partition you think is outside the disk, and say _why_ >> you think so. > > I suppose that could be nice, though when you print the table and have > a look for yourself it isn't hard to figure out. In your case your > "disk" is only one sector long so everything is outside of that.
Actually a computer can compare and intersect numeric intervals much faster than I can. Of course up to now we all can do what computers can do, but are we to relieve the computers, or is it the other way 'round? > >> 2) Despite of the message "Invalid partition table on >> /home/wiu09524/Projekte/sect0.0 -- wrong signature 0." the MBR >> signature is 0x55, 0xaa as expected > > It is talking about the extended partition table which it sees as all > zeroes since you don't have it in the image file, the read failed, and > you chose to ignore that failure. That's not obvious from the message. What about "Invalid partition table at sector ### of <device> -- wrong signature..."? > >> 3) Instead of saying "Can't have overlapping partitions." say >> _which_ partitions you think overlap with which other partitions, >> and perferrably give precise data for the overlap. Parted should >> not just help secretaries, but technicals also ;-) > > Same as above: might be nice but it's pretty easy to figure out by > looking at the output of print. See above, too. > [...] >> Finally everything converted to LBAs and then to GB (1024^2 kB): >> partition #1: 7.875 7.875 796.011 100.007 ( 0.000 / >> -696.004) partition #2: 7.871 7.875 296.009 635.491 ( >> 0.004 / 339.482) partition #3: 7.875 7.875 96.009 200.000 >> ( 0.000 / 103.991) partition #4: 0.001 7.875 0.001 >> 96.008 ( 7.874 / 96.007) >> >> You see that partition #1 (the last entry in the table) features a >> negative size! > > There is no such thing as a negative size since the table lists the > start and length ( not end ) as unsigned dwords. OK, my fault (I remembered it incorrectly)! > >> It would be great if parted could not only complain, but also >> suggest how to fix the problems detected, just like fsck does for >> years. > > The fix should be obvious: delete one of the overlapping partitions, > or shrink the first one. How to do that safely is too involved to > suggest in a short error message.
