Re: Parted 1.4.0-pre4

[Ethan Benson]

removing partitions also destroys the partition table (mac tables):

Using /dev/sda
(parted) p
Disk geometry for /dev/sda: 0.000-258.207 megabytes
Disk label type: mac
Minor    Start       End     Filesystem  Name                  Flags
1          0.000      0.031              Apple
2          0.032      0.832              bootstrap             boot
3          0.833     30.000  linux-swap  swap                  swap
4         30.001     50.000  ext2        root                  root
5         50.001     60.000  ext2        /tmp
6         60.001     70.000  ext2        macos
7         70.001     80.000  ext2        /usr
8         80.001     90.000  ext2        /var
9         95.000    100.000  ext2        /home
(parted) rm 2
(parted) p
Error: Conflicting partition map entry sizes!  Entry 1 says it's 9, but entry 0 
says its 0!
Ignore Cancel ? c
(parted) p
Error: Conflicting partition map entry sizes!  Entry 1 says it's 9, but entry 0 
says its 0!
Ignore Cancel ? i
Warning: Partition 2 has an invalid signature 0.
Ignore Cancel ? i
Error: Can't have the end before the start!
(parted)

address@hidden /root]# mac-fdisk -l /dev/sda
address@hidden /root]#

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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