Package: parted Version: 1.8.8.git.2008.03.24-11.1 Severity: normal hi,
I have an external USB drive, with partition table of "msdos" style (as reported by 'parted'); it had 3 partitions, and the first and largest was a HFS+ partition. I wanted to create another partition, so I used 'parted' to reduce the size of the first partion/HFS+filesystem; 'parted' ran OK, and Linux could read the volume OK (but not write it, since it is journalled). But when I connected the disk to a Mac, the partition was listed as a "dos" partition, and not accessible. It turned out that 'parted' changed the type of the partition in the MBR table. This is a bug (and it seems an easy to fix bug). So I connected the disk to the Linux box once again, and used 'fdisk' to set the partition type code to (hexadecimal) 'af' When I connected the disk to the MAc, I could visualize the partition; and according to Mac Os X 'disk utility' , I have to repair some problems in the volume bitmap, but the partition and its data seem OK. a. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages parted depends on: ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libncurses5 5.7+20081213-1 shared libraries for terminal hand ii libparted1.8-1 1.8.8.git.2008.03.24-11.1 The GNU Parted disk partitioning s ii libreadline5 5.2-3.1 GNU readline and history libraries parted recommends no packages. Versions of packages parted suggests: pn parted-doc <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
