Package: parted Severity: wishlist Hello,
I would like to suggest a new feature. In the case parted couldn't recognize the partition table on a disk, I think it would be helpful if parted attempted to check whether the partition table didn't assume a sector size different from the sector size that the disk currently uses. The context is that I recently ran into an issue when I accidentally partitioned a disk with a logical sector size of 4096 bytes, and then tried to read it with a logical sector size of 512 bytes. (This was because of a USB--SATA adapter acting strangely. Physical sector size of the disk is 4096 bytes.) When I tried diagnosing this issue using parted, it didn't recognize the partition table, which created a false impression that the data could have become corrupted. (This issue is not particularly uncommon; when I finally learned what was its cause, I could find several posts online describing exactly the same problem.) Thank you. Best regards, Samuel Plavec
