[Frans Pop] [Parted-maintainers] Bug#328694: parted: Does not recognize partitions on sun disklabel disk anymore

[Otavio Salvador]

The user found a regression regarting support of SPARC partition
format.

Take a look.

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> [Parted-maintainers] Bug#328694: parted: Does not recognize	partitions on sun disklabel disk anymore
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> Fri, 16 Sep 2005 21:31:34 +0200
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> Package: parted
> Version: 1.6.23-1
> Severity: important
> Tags: d-i
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> /me considered setting higher priority for this bug as it breaks
> d-i installs on Sparc as existing partitions are not recognized.
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> Setting up parted (1.6.21-1) ...
> address@hidden:~/parted$ sudo parted /dev/hda print
> Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-4103.920 megabytes
> Disk label type: sun
> Minor    Start       End     Filesystem  Flags
> 1          0.000   2860.839  ext3
> 4       2860.840   3627.268  ext3
> 2       3627.268   4103.920  linux-swap
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> Setting up parted (1.6.23-1) ...
> address@hidden:~/parted$ sudo parted /dev/hda print
> Error: Unable to satisfy all constraints on the partition.
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> Same error happens in later versions (tested up to 1.6.24-2).
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> fdisk reports the following:
> address@hidden:~/parted$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/hda
> Disk /dev/hda (Sun disk label): 15 heads, 63 sectors, 8892 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 945 * 512 bytes
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>    Device Flag    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
>    /dev/hda1             0      6200   2929500   83  Linux native
>    /dev/hda2          7861      8894    488092+  82  Linux swap
>    /dev/hda3             0      8894   4202415    5  Whole disk
>    /dev/hda4          6200      7861    784822+  83  Linux native
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> /dev/hda3 is the typical sun disklabel "whole disk partition"
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> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: testing/unstable
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: sparc (sparc64)
> Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-sparc64
> Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
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> Versions of packages parted depends on:
> ii  libc6                         2.3.5-6    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
> ii  libncurses5                   5.4-9      Shared libraries for terminal hand
> ii  libparted1.6-12               1.6.23-1   The GNU Parted disk partitioning s
> ii  libreadline4                  4.3-16     GNU readline and history libraries
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> parted recommends no packages.
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> -- no debconf information
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