Re: GPT: don't misbehave with e.g., a 9-entry partition

[Seth Goldberg]

 Thanks!  Looks good to me.

 --S

Quoting Jim Meyering, who wrote the following on Thu, 3 Nov 2011:

> Just over a year ago, Robert Herndon reported that parted
> would fail to read partition tables with say, 9 partition array
> entries instead of the usual 128:
>
>    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.parted.bugs/10173/
>
> His proposed solution used in 1/4 turned out to be the best way
> I could see to solve the problem.  If someone sees a cleaner
> approach, please let me know.  Part of the hold up was that
> I wanted a way to create an offending partition table to be
> used in a test to exercise this fix.  I completed the script
> in 3/4 and used it in 4/4 to ensure at least that
> "parted -s $dev print" can now deal with such partition tables.
>
>  [PATCH 1/4] gpt: prepare for tables with n_partition_array_entries
>  [PATCH 2/4] gpt: don't misbehave with e.g., a 9-entry partition
>  [PATCH 3/4] tests: rewrite/complete GPT-munging perl script
>  [PATCH 4/4] tests: exercise the "GPT vs other-sized partition entry
>
> Sorry it's taken so long.
>
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