bug#57142: closed (reporting an issue)

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: reporting an issue Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2022 14:55:43 +0200 User-agent: AquaMail/1.37.0 (build: 103700163)

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, 

In KNOPPIX 9.1 I use parted version 3.4

I am trying to repair the USB stick

SanDisk Cruzer Glide
SDCZ60-256G-B35

which was destoyed by partclone.

Gparted shows red warnigs, that no filesystem can be found.

With Gparted I have often deleted the partition(s) and created various new patitions with partition tables msdos and gpt.

Yet not tried ntfs until yet.

Until yet all was of no help.

Now I am going on to make partitioning to ntfs and exfat.

For this I am now using the tool parted.

In the moment the non-working on the USB stick has the partition table msdos.

For the parted command "mkpart" the documentation "info parted" says:

PART-TYPE is one of "primary", "extended" or "logical", and may be specified only with "msdos" or "dvh" partition tables.

Now the problem is:

I intend to mkpart "ntfs",

 but nevertheless parted insists to type "primary". 

Without giving "primary" I cannot progress, and with giving "primary" an error message is produced.

This is true for interactive operation as well as for non-interactive.

There is no way to use parted.

You want to receive with each bug report the output of the parted command

parted /dev/sdp unit s print free

(I have tried sdp and sdp1)

The output I cite here:

+++++

Model: SanDisk Cruzer Glide (scsi)

Disk /dev/sdp: 487391232s

Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/513B

Partition Table: msdos

Disk Flags:   (none)

Number  Start       End                Size  Type  FileSystem  Flags

                 2s          2047s            2046s  (none)  FreeSpace  (none)

1               2048s  487391231s  487389184s  primary  (none)  (none)

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Regards

Anton_Wessel@t-online

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> On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 02:55:43PM +0200, Anton Wessel wrote:
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> > Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
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> > In KNOPPIX 9.1 I use parted version 3.4
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> > I am trying to repair the USB stick
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> > > SanDisk Cruzer Glide
> > > SDCZ60-256G-B35
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> > which was destoyed by partclone.
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> I am not sure what you mean by repair, but parted likely isn't the tool
> you want for that.
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> parted *can* re-partition the device, but you will lose your data when
> you re-format it.
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> As the other response said, you need to use 'primary' on msdos
> labeled devices. Setting the filesystem type to ntfs will set the
> partition type for an NTFS filesystem, but will not actually format it.
> You need to use mkfs.ntfs to do that.
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> Good Luck,
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> Brian
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> Brian C. Lane (PST8PDT) - weldr.io - lorax - parted - pykickstart
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