Subject: Re: bug#17762: PARTED Bug related to fat32

From: Phillip Susi <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2014 10:15:14 -0400

On 06/12/2014 10:13 AM, dimonik, dimonik wrote:
> Hello, it seems i found a bug :)
> 
> Package: parted
> 
> Version 2.3-20
> 
> OS: Linux 3.13-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.13.7-1 (2014-03-25) x86_64
> GNU/Linux
> 
> VERSION $ apt-cache policy parted parted: Installed: 2.3-20 
> Candidate: 2.3-20 Version table: *** 2.3-20 0 500
> http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main amd64 Packages 100
> /var/lib/dpkg/status

Version 2.3 is ancient and no longer supported upstream.  Also all
filesystem manipulation code was removed in parted 3.0.  You should do
as the warning message suggested and use mkdosfs instead of parted to
format the filesystem, or report this to debian.