Package: parted Version: 3.2-15 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
Parted incorrectly reports "The location xxx is outside of the device" when trying to make a partition finish at the exact end of a device. To reproduce, run the following commands: rm -f blockfile truncate -s 100M blockfile /sbin/parted -s blockfile mklabel msdos /sbin/parted -s blockfile unit MiB mkpart primary fat16 1 50 /sbin/parted -s blockfile unit MiB mkpart primary fat16 50 100 /sbin/parted -s blockfile unit s print Note that only one partition is created, the second mkpart fails with: Error: The location 100 is outside of the device /home/tcv/blockfile. The correct behaviour can be observed by the following commands: rm -f blockfile truncate -s 101M blockfile /sbin/parted -s blockfile mklabel msdos /sbin/parted -s blockfile unit MiB mkpart primary fat16 1 50 /sbin/parted -s blockfile unit MiB mkpart primary fat16 50 100 truncate -s 100M blockfile /sbin/parted -s blockfile unit s print By making the device (in this case a disk image file) bigger than necessary, parted correctly allows the partition to be created. The size can then be reduced, and the print command shows what the output should have been in the first case. A more concise workaround uses percentages: rm -f blockfile truncate -s 100M blockfile /sbin/parted -s blockfile mklabel msdos /sbin/parted -s blockfile unit MiB mkpart primary fat16 1 50 /sbin/parted -s blockfile unit MiB mkpart primary fat16 50 '100%' /sbin/parted -s blockfile unit s print The output in either of the two workarounds is the same, it should be the same for the problem case too. Presumably a < needs to be changed to <= somewhere. Many thanks, Tom -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages parted depends on: ii libc6 2.23-4 ii libparted2 3.2-15 ii libreadline6 6.3-8+b4 ii libtinfo5 6.0+20160625-1 parted recommends no packages. Versions of packages parted suggests: pn parted-doc <none> -- no debconf information
