Re: bug during print

[Petr Uzel]

On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 08:59:36PM -0500, Grgur Tokic wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've encoutered this message when trying to print the information about a disk
> with gpt label, previously formated using the same instance of parted.
> 
> 
> You found a bug in GNU Parted.  Please email a bug report to address@hidden
> containing the version (1.6.19), and the following message:
> 
> Assertion ((PedSector) PED_LE64_TO_CPU (gpt.AlternateLBA) <= 
> disk->dev->length -
> 1) at disk_gpt.c:621 in function gpt_read()
> failed.
> Ignore/Cancel?

IIRC this was fixed in parted 1.9.0

> On a different note, we're having different versions of the similar problem 
> for
> months--we cannot format 3TB disk, not even using parted. On a clean 
> partition,
> we create gpt label in parted and form one primary partition occupying the
> entire disk, also using parted. Then we are trying to create the ext3 file
> system using mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdd1 (where /dev/sdd1 is previously created 
> primary
> partition), but it never seems to work. Are we doing something wrong? Any help
> would be greatly appreciated!

I don't know, but I'll try to test this next week - finally some use
for the 3TB disk on my desk ;)

Best regards,

Petr

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