Re: suggestion for improvement of gnu parted

[Andrew Clausen]

On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 10:28:56AM +0200, address@hidden wrote:
> When I tried to rearrrange my partitions with parted, I had to notice that
> my partition table was slightly damaged: parted 1.6.4 (started from a Linux
> rescue CD) showed only one partion of type FAT16 comprising the entire disk.
> But both fdisk and cfdisk were able to show all 7 partitions. After executing
> the DOS command fdisk /mbr, parted was also able to show all partitions. In
> essence, the way how partitions are detected may be improved. 

Hmmm, interesting.  Pity you don't have the partition table that was
causing problems.

> May be the entry 2001-12-18 of parted changelog has to do with it (as far as
> I understand)

I can't see anything at that date that could possibly be relevant.
(Maybe you should cut&paste the bit you mean?)

Cheers,
Andrew