As far as parted goes, this was fixed some time ago; it now throws an
exception notifying the user of the error, and gives them the chance to
ignore it so they can print the existing table, and delete the offending
partition. It seems however, that parted_server ignores the error ( not
even
my installation will not go further than 50% when copying files, because
i think the setup hasnt detected what a maximum of partitions are,
always got a message that i have a faulty disk, and that i can buy some
cleanup products in most electronic shops.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/366282
Title:
partitions that overflow disk not handled gracefully
** Changed in: parted (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) = Phillip Susi (psusi)
** Changed in: parted (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed = In Progress
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I get the same problem with the install cd of 9.10. No partitions are
detected.
** Attachment added: output of sudo od -Ax -tx1 -N512 /dev/sda octal_512B.txt
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/35457960/octal_512B.txt
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partitions that overflow disk not handled gracefully
** Summary changed:
- Install partitioner does not detect existing partition table
+ partitions that overflow disk not handled gracefully
** Attachment added: script to help reconstruct disk from attachments
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/27649664/revod
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partitions that overflow disk not
A passable simulation of Steveire's disk may be constructed as follows.
Save http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25999304/od_output as 'mbr', split up
the pieces of http://launchpadlibrarian.net/26023635/ext_boot_records
and save them as 'ebr1', 'ebr2', 'ebr3', and 'ebr4', and use the revod
script in
