On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 12:41:39PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 12:21:51PM +0100, A Mennucc wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 11:37:36AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 10:36:07AM +0100, A Mennucc wrote: > > > > Package: parted > > > > Version: 1.6.21-1 > > > > Severity: important > > > > I have a USB memory stick; I have created one partition on it; > > > > the current layout is > > > btw: I doubt there is any vfat data around : I filled > > the partition with my data almost completely > > The magic marker for fat partition is probably kept, it is just one sector, > and probably living outside the ext2 accessible data or something. > > > > How do you create the ext2 partition anyway ? > > > > with 'cfdisk /dev/sda' ; then I did 'mkfs.ext2 /dev/sda1' > > If you had created the ext2 filesystem with parted, it would probably have > clobbered the old fat on it, not sure though.
before I used cfdisk, the usb stick was 'partionless' : /dev/sda itself was one big fat partition > > my usb stick works perfectly well with : > > fdisk, cfdisk , mount, etc etc > > Sure, but you can't use those for resizing. that is currently my problem > Something more clever could > (and maybe should) be done, but this is a post-sarge issue which we need to > convince upstream of, and would probably require a not-so-small redesign. > Maybe for parted 1.7 or something. Unless other people get bitten while installing sarge. We will see. > > parted is the only program being fouled > > Because the other blindly follow the partition table. Now if you had changed > the partition type in the partition table erroneously, parted would not be > fouled, but the others would, so ... I see it the opposite way . The other tools use the standard approach of looking at the type, and they work OK. parted tries to be smarter than the rest, and fails. so this is a bug in parted the best behaviour should be: 1) parted looks at the type in the partition table 2) parted looks inside the partition and tries to guess 3) if the two guesses do not match, parted asks politely - thanks a lot for the discussion a. -- Andrea Mennucc "Ukn ow,Ifina llyfixe dmysp acebar.ohwh atthef" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
