Bug 135468

Summary: Parted does not report partition information correctly when the partition size is greater then 1 TB.
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Reporter: Peter Martuccelli <peterm>
Component: partedAssignee: Chris Lumens <clumens>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Version: 3.0CC: clausen, poelstra
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Description Peter Martuccelli 2004-10-12 21:15:42 UTC
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Description of problem:
Parted does not report partition information correctly to the user
when the partition sixe exceeds 1 TB in size.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.parted /dev/sda mkpart primary 0 1048577
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Additional info:

This Bugzilla entry contains a patch that fixes the problem when used
in conjunction with the kernel patch proposed for Bugzilla entry #116289.

Comment 1 Peter Martuccelli 2004-10-12 21:17:35 UTC
Created attachment 105092 [details]
Patch attached for parted.c

Comment 2 Jeremy Katz 2004-10-13 02:02:15 UTC
Fixed for RHEL 3 and HEAD.  Mailed the patch to bug-parted

Comment 3 Chris Lumens 2005-01-19 21:23:32 UTC
Peter - has this bug been fixed for you?  I don't quite have the disks in my
test machines to verify.

Comment 4 Peter Martuccelli 2005-01-19 22:59:15 UTC
I will test parted along with the kernel changes targeted for
inclusion in RHEL3 U5.

Comment 6 Dennis Gregorovic 2005-05-18 14:34:38 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2005-246.html