On Jan 1, 2005, at 3:17 PM, Benjamin Scott wrote:
Programs (like
parted) which previously depended on the kernel to provide good answers got
hosed. This could easily render a legacy OS unbootable.
That's a good reminder to check versions of code you depend on before you do something potentially destructive. There's always room for a '-F' mode (the 'I really understand and mean to do this anyway' mode) for emergency situations. The parted guys may not have expected kernel 2.6 to change much, but certainly kernel 5.2 might treat partition tables differently.
(and yeah, I got burned by this bug myself). Fortunately I was working on a dd-clone of the client's disks.
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