Re: You found a bug in GNU Parted.

[Woody Suwalski]

T. Eckhardt wrote:
> Hello,
>
> While running "parted /dev/hdb5 print" by mistake i got the following
> request which i want to meet with this mail:
>
> --
> You found a bug in GNU Parted.  Please email a bug report to
> address@hidden containing the version (1.6.2), and the following
> message:
>
> Assertion (dev->length > 0) at linux.c:656 in function init_file()
> failed.
> --
>
>
> Thomas
Thomas, I think you should use "parted /dev/hdb print".
Otherwise parted tries to treat a partition like a hard disk...

Actually, I think that UI should start handling this issue - give a 
warning, or even drop the last digit...

Woody