Re: Byg in Parted !?

[Harley D. Eades III]

On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 12:39 +0000, Dirk Jan Datema wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> When I tried to run parted on a virgin IDE harddisk using the command "parted 
> /dev/hdb" I received the following error message:
> 
> "Warning: Unable to open /dev/hdb read-write (Read-only file system). 
> /dev/hdb has been opened read-only.
> You found a bug in GNU Parted. Please email a bug report to address@hidden 
> containg the version (1.6.19), and the following message: 
> 
> The sector size on /dev/hdb is 2048 bytes.  Parted is known not to work 
> properly with drives with sector size other than 512 bytes
> "
> (I copied text this manually so there might be a few type errors, in case you 
> want to search for this text in your source code).
> 
> This version of "parted" comes from the CentOS 4.2 distribution.
> 
> I'm actually supprised that the sector size is 2048 bytes since my system has 
> another harddisk of exactly the same brand and type.
> If I run "cfdisk /dev/hda" (the other disk) and print the partition table 
> then the sector size is 512.
> 
> Do you have any idea what caused parted to give this failure? Is it a bug of 
> parted or is it "just" a warning to the user that parted is not suitable for 
> hard disks with this sector size.
> 
Could you try a newer version of parted, the one you are using is old
and out of date. You can find the newest version at
http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/#downloading

Thanks
Harley