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parted package

  1. Bug #1068879
  2. Comment #1

Comment 1 for bug 1068879

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Phillip Susi (psusi) wrote : Re: parted fails removing flag from empty partition

This is because as far as parted is concerned, that partition does not exist as type code 0 means the slot is unused. The kernel and util-linux's fdisk seem to accept the entry with this type code, though it is unclear why.