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 logging it ).
** Package changed: parted (Ubuntu) => partman-base (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: partman-base (Ubuntu) Status: In Progress => Triaged ** Changed in: partman-base (Ubuntu) Assignee: Phillip Susi (psusi) => (unassigned) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/366282 Title: partitions that overflow disk not handled gracefully To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/partman-base/+bug/366282/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs