Re: Bug in parted with GPT partition table from Lenovo Ideapad A1

[Brian C. Lane]

On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 01:10:17PM +0000, Markall, Graham wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to use gparted to examine what I believe is a partition table from 
> the Lenovo Ideapad A1. I've uploded a file containing the partition table to 
> http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~grm08/ideapad/mbr16GB.img (md5: 
> 0b236b16e98de53393f6539c40ba1201).

One way to work around this is to make a sparse disk image and then drop
your partition table onto the start of it, something like this:

dd if=/dev/null of=disk.img bs=1M seek=16K
dd if=mbr16GB.img of=disk.img seek=0 conv=nocreat,notrunc


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