Public bug reported: parted reports a disk as having an hfs+ partition, when in fact it has a single ext3 partition.
fdisk, sfdisk, cfdisk and gdisk all report the disk with an ext3 partition as expected, and fsck reports that partition as clean. I tried both my standard parted 2.2 (2.2-5ubuntu5 in "Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS") and a freshly compiled parted 3.0 with the same result. ========================= # parted /dev/sdb print Model: ATA WDC WD5000AAVS-0 (scsi) Disk /dev/sdb: 500GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: mac Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 512B 32.8kB 32.3kB Apple 3 134MB 500GB 500GB hfs+ Apple_HFS_Untitled_1 ========================= # fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 1 60801 488384001 83 Linux ========================= # gdisk -l /dev/sdb GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.5.1 Partition table scan: MBR: MBR only BSD: not present APM: not present GPT: not present *************************************************************** Found invalid GPT and valid MBR; converting MBR to GPT format. THIS OPERATON IS POTENTIALLY DESTRUCTIVE! Exit by typing 'q' if you don't want to convert your MBR partitions to GPT format! *************************************************************** Disk /dev/sdb: 976773168 sectors, 465.8 GiB Disk identifier (GUID): A44C39DC-F029-04AD-746D-F75D6FB0250B Partition table holds up to 128 entries First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 976773134 Total free space is 5099 sectors (2.5 MiB) Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name 1 63 976768064 465.8 GiB 0700 Linux/Windows data ========================= ** Affects: parted (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/909424 Title: Parted reports ext3 partition as hfs+ To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/parted/+bug/909424/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs