Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, In KNOPPIX 9.1 I use parted version 3.4 I am trying to repair the USB stick > SanDisk Cruzer Glide > SDCZ60-256G-B35 which was destoyed by partclone. Gparted shows red warnigs, that no filesystem can be found. With Gparted I have often deleted the partition(s) and created various new patitions with partition tables msdos and gpt. Yet not tried ntfs until yet. Until yet all was of no help. Now I am going on to make partitioning to ntfs and exfat. For this I am now using the tool parted. In the moment the non-working on the USB stick has the partition table msdos. For the parted command "mkpart" the documentation "info parted" says: PART-TYPE is one of "primary", "extended" or "logical", and may be specified only with "msdos" or "dvh" partition tables. Now the problem is: I intend to mkpart "ntfs", but nevertheless parted insists to type "primary". Without giving "primary" I cannot progress, and with giving "primary" an error message is produced. This is true for interactive operation as well as for non-interactive. There is no way to use parted. You want to receive with each bug report the output of the parted command parted /dev/sdp unit s print free (I have tried sdp and sdp1) The output I cite here: +++++ Model: SanDisk Cruzer Glide (scsi) Disk /dev/sdp: 487391232s Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/513B Partition Table: msdos Disk Flags: (none) Number Start End Size Type FileSystem Flags 2s 2047s 2046s (none) FreeSpace (none) 1 2048s 487391231s 487389184s primary (none) (none) ----- Regards Anton_Wessel@t-online de