#942506 program does not recognise GPT table

Package:
testdisk
Source:
testdisk
Description:
Partition scanner and disk recovery tool, and PhotoRec file recovery tool
Submitter:
Toni
Date:
2019-10-17 10:39:07 UTC
Severity:
normal
#942506#5
Date:
2019-10-17 10:28:28 UTC
From:
To:
Hello,

I wanted to use testdisk on a disk, but it gives me this:
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Analyse Disk /dev/sda - 1801 GB / 1678 GiB - CHS 219051 255 63
hdr_size=92
hdr_lba_self=1
hdr_lba_alt=7814037167 (expected 3519069871)
hdr_lba_start=34
hdr_lba_end=7814037134
hdr_lba_table=2
hdr_entries=128
hdr_entsz=128
Partition table type (auto): None
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In contrast, gdisk gives me this:

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Partition table scan:
  MBR: protective
  BSD: not present
  APM: not present
  GPT: damaged
...

Recovery/transformation command (? for help): i
Using 1
Partition GUID code: YYYYYYYY-YYYY-YYYY-YYYY-YYYYYYYYYYYY (Linux filesystem)
Partition unique GUID: XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX
First sector: 2048 (at 1024.0 KiB)
Last sector: 7814035455 (at 3.6 TiB)
Partition size: 7814033408 sectors (3.6 TiB)
Attribute flags: 0000000000000000
Partition name: 'correct-partition-name'
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So, there is a GPT table there, somewhere.

It would be nice if testdisk would do a better job with disks having a
GPT partition table.


Cheers,
Toni