I securely erased the drive's entire data with shred. i.e.: sudo shred /dev/sdd
So after this there was no longer a partition table at all. (Prior to this, it was a DOS partition table.) ** Changed in: parted (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1104797 Title: partprobe silently fails where blockdev --rereadpt succeeds To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/parted/+bug/1104797/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs