Re: OT: is parted reliable?

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Until CentOS 4.7, parted would create DOS partitions > 2Tb.

DOS partitions can not be > 2Tb. This could "...corrupt partition tables and ruin filesystem".

The latest version from CentOS 4.7 fixes this (and other) bugs.

John.

Sergio Belkin wrote:
Hi, I've read on LPI Linux Certification (Ed O'Reilly)  in a nutshell
the following thing:

"parted, unfortunately, has been known to corrupt partition tables and
ruin filesystem."

What do you think about it?

Greets!



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John Newbigin
ITS Senior Analyst / Programmer
Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies
Swinburne University of Technology
Melbourne, Australia
http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin
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