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