Bug 24055

Summary:	Attempt to create a GUID partition table creates one onremoveable partition
Product:	udisks	Reporter:	maximlevitsky
Component:	operations	Assignee:	David Zeuthen (not reading bugmail) <zeuthen>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
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Description maximlevitsky 2009-09-20 17:10:08 UTC

Just after creation of the partition table, it creates a single partition that spans all the device (which is wrong), then an attempt to delete it fails:

Error erasing: helper exited with exit code 1: In part_del_partition: device_file=/dev/mmcblk0, offset=512
Entering MS-DOS parser (offset=0, size=1015808000)
MSDOS_MAGIC found
found partition type 0xee => protective MBR for GPT
Exiting MS-DOS parser
Entering EFI GPT parser
No GPT_MAGIC found
Leaving EFI GPT parser
Entering Apple parser
No MAC_MAGIC found
Leaving Apple parser
No known partition table found
got it
Error: /dev/mmcblk0: unrecognised disk label
ped_disk_new() failed

Comment 1 David Zeuthen (not reading bugmail) 2009-10-16 13:28:25 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)
> device_file=/dev/mmcblk0

IIRC, SD media only support MBR so that's probably why you are seeing this bug. Yes, it's crazy, but that's part of the spec IIRC. Not all SD readers may enforce this restriction. Does it work on other kinds of devices?

Comment 2 maximlevitsky 2009-10-16 22:10:39 UTC

very well could be, a usb on disk keys doesn't have this limitation?

Comment 3 maximlevitsky 2009-10-22 15:27:18 UTC

Unfortunately, exactly same behavior is seen on an usb disk-on-key.

Comment 4 maximlevitsky 2010-01-22 03:28:31 UTC

Just like I explained in bug #24056, everything works fine now.

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