On 23 Feb 2010, at 18:02, Robert Heller wrote:
I guessing one of these things is going on:
A) Ubuntu has *patched* versions of parted and fdisk that disable their error checking (!).
B) Ubuntu has new versions of parted and fdisk that are more liberal than the (older) versions shipped with CentOS.
What does
parted -v and fdisk -v
Yes, that is possible. The versions are:
# parted -v: 1.8.8
# fdisk -v: util-linux-ng 2.14.2