Re: parted bug

[Harley D. Eades III]

On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 16:12 +0100, Kay Rydyger wrote:
> 
> bug report
> ------------
> 
> GNU Parted 1.6.15
> Copyright (C) 1998 - 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public 
> License.
> 
> This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but 
> WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without
> even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A 
> PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
> General Public License for more details.
> 
> Using /dev/hda
> (parted) h
>   check MINOR                   do a simple check on the filesystem
>   cp [FROM-DEVICE] FROM-MINOR TO-MINOR      copy filesystem to another 
> partition
>   help [COMMAND]                prints general help, or help on 
> COMMAND
>   mklabel LABEL-TYPE            create a new disklabel (partition 
> table)
>   mkfs MINOR FS-TYPE            make a filesystem FS-TYPE on 
> partititon MINOR
>   mkpart PART-TYPE [FS-TYPE] START END      make a partition
>   mkpartfs PART-TYPE FS-TYPE START END      make a partition with a 
> filesystem
>   move MINOR START END          move partition MINOR
>   name MINOR NAME               name partition MINOR NAME
>   print [MINOR]                 display the partition table, or a 
> partition
>   quit                          exit program
>   rescue START END              rescue a lost partition near START and 
> END
>   resize MINOR START END        resize filesystem on partition MINOR
>   rm MINOR                      delete partition MINOR
>   select DEVICE                 choose the device to edit
>   set MINOR FLAG STATE          change a flag on partition MINOR
> (parted) p
> You found a bug in GNU Parted.  Please email a bug report to 
> address@hidden containing the version (1.6.15), and the following 
> message:
> 
> Assertion (heads > 0) at disk_dos.c:485 in function 
> probe_partition_for_geom() failed.
> Ignore/Cancel?                      
This version of parted is very outdated it is most likely this bug has
been fixed since then.  Thanks for the report

Cheers
Harley