[Bug 246423] parted confused by spurious garbage reports "loop" table and wrong data

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Summary: parted confused by spurious garbage reports "loop" table and wrong data


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=246423





------- Additional Comments From jgranado at redhat.com  2008-05-29 05:47 EST -------
(In reply to comment #12)
> > Going to investigate why parted is giving the wrong information.
> 
> As parted works with more partitioning methods, a.k.a. "label types",
> than (s)fdisk, and attempts to guess a partition type from what it
> sees on a disk, it may turn out that the problem is "unfixable"
> because of a clash with, say, a gpt handling code.
> 

This is something that I have considered, but even if that is the case, parted
is still misbehaving IMO.  might be that the heuristic it is using has not
considered a corner case.  Will have to look at this closer.



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