Right.. it's a common behaviour for a lot of distros... and what about
the output, is it printed to stdout or stderr?

Cheers,
-Andrea

Mitch Sako wrote:
> I checked again.  The RH RPM is parted-1.6.3-29.5 if that makes any
> difference.  RH usually doesn't change the minor release number and just
> appends patches to it.
> 
> Mitch
> 
> Andrea Righi wrote:
>> Mitch Sako wrote:
>>
>>> $ parted --version
>>> GNU Parted 1.6.3
>>
>>
>> it's a very old version... have you tried to update it to a newer
>> release (at least 1.6.23)?
>>
>>
>>> $ parted -s -- /dev/sda print
>>> Warning: Unable to align partition properly.  This probably means that
>>> another partitioning tool generated an incorrect partition table,
>>> because it didn't have the correct BIOS geometry.  It is safe to
>>> ignore,but ignoring may cause (fixable) problems with some boot loaders.
>>> Disk geometry for /dev/sda: 0.000-76324.500 megabytes
>>> Disk label type: msdos
>>> Minor    Start       End     Type      Filesystem  Flags
>>> 1          0.000    271.074  primary   ext2        boot
>>> 2        271.075  53022.036  primary   xfs         3      53022.037 
>>> 76324.438  primary   linux-swap
>>>
>>
>>
>> Anyway, the output seems correct... can you check if it is printed to
>> stdout or stderr? for example what happens if you run:
>>
>> # parted -s -- /dev/sda print 2>/dev/null
>>
>> If the commands doesn't print anything we can fix it redirecting all to
>> stdout... let me know..
>>
>> Cheers,
>> -Andrea
>>
>>
> 
> 

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