Just thought I'd pop this through; using MeeGo, I created an Ext4 USB thumb drive which seemingly cannot be touched!
#sudo partprobe /dev/sdb
Backtrace has 13 calls on stack:
13: /lib/libparted-1.9.so.0(ped_assert+0x43) [0xbf5ba3]
12: /lib/libparted-1.9.so.0() [0xc2d3f7]
11: /lib/libparted-1.9.so.0() [0xc2e47a]
10: /lib/libparted-1.9.so.0() [0xc2f7e4]
9: /lib/libparted-1.9.so.0() [0xbfa969]
8: /lib/libparted-1.9.so.0(ped_disk_add_partition+0x30b) [0xbfe2bb]
7: /lib/libparted-1.9.so.0() [0xc310b7]
6: /lib/libparted-1.9.so.0() [0xc3139c]
5: /lib/libparted-1.9.so.0(ped_disk_new+0xa1) [0xbfe621]
4: partprobe() [0x8048bfa]
3: partprobe(main+0x155) [0x8048ff5]
2: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe7) [0xa3fbb7]
1: partprobe() [0x8048b11]
A bug has been detected in GNU Parted. Refer to the web site of parted http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html for more informations of what could be useful for bug submitting! Please email a bug report to address@hidden containing at least the version (1.9.0) and the following message: Assertion (head_size <= 63) at dos.c:643 in function probe_partition_for_geom() failed.
Backtrace has 8 calls on stack:
8: /lib/libparted-1.9.so.0(ped_assert+0x43) [0xbf5ba3]
7: /lib/libparted-1.9.so.0() [0xc2d3f7]
6: /lib/libparted-1.9.so.0() [0xc316d2]
5: /lib/libparted-1.9.so.0(ped_disk_new+0xa1) [0xbfe621]
4: partprobe() [0x8048bfa]
3: partprobe(main+0x155) [0x8048ff5]
2: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe7) [0xa3fbb7]
1: partprobe() [0x8048b11]
A bug has been detected in GNU Parted. Refer to the web site of parted http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html for more informations of what could be useful for bug submitting! Please email a bug report to address@hidden containing at least the version (1.9.0) and the following message: Assertion (head_size <= 63) at dos.c:643 in function probe_partition_for_geom() failed.