Subject: Re: bug#54751: Parted 3.4 complains about the partition layout of ChromeOS: "Can't have overlapping partitions"

From: Steven Shiau <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2022 06:19:02 +0800

On 4/7/22 00:27, Brian C. Lane wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 06, 2022 at 02:20:56PM +0800, Steven Shiau wrote:
>
>> So my questions: (1) Is there any option we can use to ignore the
>> error/warning in the script mode? (2) What is the issue about the
>> partition layout of ChromeOS? Thank you very much.
> No, having overlapping partitions is an error, and script mode tries
> pretty hard to make sure you can't accidentally destroy your data.
>
> Please include the output from
>
> parted /dev/sda unit s print
>
> so we can see what parted thinks the sector locations and lengths are.
>
> Brian
>
Thank you very much for answering this. Here you are:
root@debian:~# parted /dev/sda unit s print
Error: Can't have overlapping partitions.
Ignore/Cancel? I
Model: VMware Virtual Storage (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 25165824s
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags: pmbr_boot

Number  Start     End        Size      File system  Name        Flags
11      64s       64s        1s                     RWFW
  6      65s       65s        1s                     KERN-C      chromeos_kernel
  7      66s       66s        1s                     ROOT-C
  9      67s       67s        1s                     reserved
10      68s       68s        1s                     reserved
  2      69s       32836s     32768s                 KERN-A      chromeos_kernel
  4      32837s    65604s     32768s                 KERN-B      chromeos_kernel
  8      69632s    102399s    32768s    ext4         OEM
12      102400s   233471s    131072s   fat16        EFI-SYSTEM  boot, legacy_boot, esp
  5      233472s   237567s    4096s                  ROOT-B
  3      237568s   5152767s   4915200s  ext2         ROOT-A
  1      5152768s  13553792s  8401025s  ext4         STATE

Steven

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