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Bug 583906 - GParted incorrectly provides option to create extended partition on GPT disk
GParted incorrectly provides option to create extended partition on GPT disk
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gparted
Classification: Other
Component: application
GIT HEAD
Other All
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Assigned To: gparted maintainers alias
gparted maintainers alias
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Reported: 2009-05-26 16:05 UTC by Jan Claeys
Modified: 2010-02-24 18:48 UTC
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Description Jan Claeys 2009-05-26 16:05:59 UTC 
GParted provides an option to create an extended partition on a GPT disk, which then results in an error from libparted: GPT disks don't allow extended partitions.  So we should remove that option from the GUI in that case.
Comment 1 Curtis Gedak 2010-02-24 18:48:21 UTC 
Thanks Jan for reporting this problem.

From the parted documentation, it appears that only "msdos" and "dvh" disk types (or partition table types) support extended partitions.
http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/parted.html#mkpartfs

As such when creating a new partition, the extended option has been disabled for non-MSDOS and non-DVH partition table types.

This enhancement has been committed to the GNOME git repository for inclusion in the next release of GParted.

The relevant git commit can be viewed at the following link:
http://git.gnome.org/browse/gparted/commit/?id=70584176de46dc1cd5a99fc2f1d3834a1b68cba6

Closing this bug.