[ parted-Bugs-303530 ] partprobe command loses extended partition

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Bugs item #303530, was opened at 2006-06-07 14:18
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Category: parted
Group: Version 1.7.0
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: rich turner (storix-guest)
Assigned to: Nobody (None)
Summary: partprobe command loses extended partition

Initial Comment:
After running partprobe the kernel loses touch with the extended partition on 
my system. Is this a bug or is this by design? If this is by design then why?

# sfdisk -l /dev/hda
Disk /dev/hda: 39813 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors/track
Warning: extended partition does not start at a cylinder boundary.
DOS and Linux will interpret the contents differently.
Warning: The partition table looks like it was made
  for C/H/S=*/255/63 (instead of 39813/16/63).
For this listing I'll assume that geometry.
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

   Device Boot Start     End   #cyls    #blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *      0+     30      31-    248976   83  Linux
/dev/hda2         31    2497    2467   19816177+   5  Extended
/dev/hda3          0       -       0          0    0  Empty
/dev/hda4          0       -       0          0    0  Empty
/dev/hda5         31+   2497    2467-  19816146   8e  Linux LVM

# cat /proc/partitions
major minor  #blocks  name

   3     0   20066251 hda
   3     1     248976 hda1
   3     5   19816146 hda5
   3    64   20066251 hdb
   3    65      32768 hdb1
   3    66   20032983 hdb2

# ls /sys/block/hda
dev  device  hda1  hda5  queue  range  removable  size  stat

# uname -a
Linux rich 2.6.12-10-386 #1 Fri Apr 28 13:13:44 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux

# partprobe -v
partprobe (parted1.7.0)

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