Your message dated Wed, 04 Feb 2009 02:47:05 +0000
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and subject line Bug#504747: fixed in gnu-fdisk 1.2-1
has caused the Debian Bug report #504747,
regarding gnu-fdisk: wipes out MBR when used on GPT partitions
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504747: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=504747
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Package: gnu-fdisk
Version: 1.0-3+b1
Severity: grave
Justification: causes non-serious data loss
gnu-fdisk wipes out the Code Area in the MBR of a given device when modifying a
GPT partition. If this happens to be the boot device, this can cause serious
trouble.
The behaviour can be easily verified with dd and hexdump.
Create a blockdevice with a gpt label, then write data to the code area, e.g.:
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdc bs=440 count=1
and verify that it's there:
dd if=/dev/sdc bs=512 count=1 | hexdump -C -v
Then get fdisk to rewrite the partition table (starting and immediately
(re)writing the partition table works); a verification with dd/hexdump should
show an empty Code Area.
The free encyclopedia has a nice layout of the MBR, for verification:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record
best regards,
Michael
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
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 gnu-fdisk depends on:
ii libc6 2.7-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libncurses5 5.6+20080830-1 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libparted1.8-10 1.8.8.git.2008.03.24-11 The GNU Parted disk partitioning s
ii libuuid1 1.41.2-1 universally unique id library
gnu-fdisk recommends no packages.
gnu-fdisk suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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Source: gnu-fdisk
Source-Version: 1.2-1
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
gnu-fdisk, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
gnu-fdisk_1.2-1.diff.gz
to pool/main/g/gnu-fdisk/gnu-fdisk_1.2-1.diff.gz
gnu-fdisk_1.2-1.dsc
to pool/main/g/gnu-fdisk/gnu-fdisk_1.2-1.dsc
gnu-fdisk_1.2-1_i386.deb
to pool/main/g/gnu-fdisk/gnu-fdisk_1.2-1_i386.deb
gnu-fdisk_1.2.orig.tar.gz
to pool/main/g/gnu-fdisk/gnu-fdisk_1.2.orig.tar.gz
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Xavier Oswald <[email protected]> (supplier of updated gnu-fdisk package)
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Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:42:51 +0100
Source: gnu-fdisk
Binary: gnu-fdisk
Architecture: source i386
Version: 1.2-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: high
Maintainer: Parted Maintainer Team <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Xavier Oswald <[email protected]>
Description:
gnu-fdisk - Linux fdisk replacement based on libparted
Closes: 445304 463720 504747 512751
Changes:
gnu-fdisk (1.2-1) unstable; urgency=high
.
* New upstream release (Closes: #512751)
* Fix inoperability for disks with unknown disklabel (Closes: #445304)
* Fix wipes out MBR when used on GPT partitions(Closes: #504747)
* Fix Segmentation fault (Closes: #463720)
* Add Build-Depends on texinfo in debian/control
* Rename debian/patches/pointer to debian/patches/pointer.patch
* Add debian/pateches/mkinstalldirs.patch for adding the missing
mkinstalldirs command
* Update copyright about licences location
* Remove leftover .pc/.version
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