It seems that evms and parted disagree about what a GPT disk label should look like. Each program calls the other's GPT label "corrupt". (Fighting words!)
When I use evms to add the GPT segment manager to a disk, then exit evms, start parted, and type 'print', parted says: Error: Both the primary and backup GPT tables are corrupt. Try making a fresh table, and using Parted's rescue feature to recover partitions. OTOH if I create a GPT disk label in parted, then when I start evms it says: GptSegMgr: Primary GPT Header is missing or corrupt. Marking sdb_metadata1 dirty to correct the problem. (And unfortunately, evms is then unable to save the revised metadata, saying: Engine: EVMS cannot backup metadata while changes are pending. Engine: The changes were saved successfully, but the backup of the metadata failed with error code 1: Operation not permitted so I have to either quit without saving, or remove the GPT segment manager. But that's a separate problem.) Not having dug into the details of GPT disk labels, I can't say which program is wrong, but clearly at least one of them is. Is this a known issue? Anyone have any idea what the source of the discrepancy is? Thanks, Andrew. _______________________________________________ bug-parted mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-parted
