Subject: bug#20893: Strange behavior when using parted

From: "Brian C. Lane" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 14:53:01 -0700

On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 10:44:23PM +0200, Joan Lledó wrote:
> Hello parted list,
> 
> I'm not sure this is a bug, probably not, but since I've installed
> Debian 8 some scripts I use for helping me to test a library are
> having a strange behavior. I've wrote a little script as an example:

What version of parted are you using?

You may be hitting this bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1135493

(there's a fix being discussed on the parted-devel list)

> 
> #!/bin/bash
> cd ~
> modprobe scsi_debug dev_size_mb=800 sector_size=4096
> parted /dev/sdf mklabel msdos
> parted /dev/sdf mkpart primary 1 50
> parted /dev/sdf mkpart primary 51 105
> parted /dev/sdf mkpart extended 106 750
> parted /dev/sdf mkpart primary 751 839
> parted /dev/sdf mkpart logical 107 200
> parted /dev/sdf mkpart logical 201 300
> parted /dev/sdf mkpart logical 301 450
> parted /dev/sdf mkpart logical 451 600
> parted /dev/sdf mkpart logical 601 750

Also, you should be using -s in your script to avoid prompting.

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