diff --git a/parted-use-ext-range.patch b/parted-use-ext-range.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3abfe95
--- /dev/null
+++ b/parted-use-ext-range.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+Index: parted-2.4/libparted/arch/linux.c
+===================================================================
+--- parted-2.4.orig/libparted/arch/linux.c
++++ parted-2.4/libparted/arch/linux.c
+@@ -2413,7 +2413,7 @@ _blkpg_remove_partition (PedDisk* disk,
+ 
+ /*
+  * The number of partitions that a device can have depends on the kernel.
+- * If we don't find this value in /sys/block/DEV/range, we will use our own
++ * If we don't find this value in /sys/block/DEV/ext_range, we will use our own
+  * value.
+  */
+ static unsigned int
+@@ -2424,7 +2424,7 @@ _device_get_partition_range(PedDevice* d
+         FILE*       fp;
+         bool        ok;
+ 
+-        r = snprintf(path, sizeof(path), "/sys/block/%s/range",
++        r = snprintf(path, sizeof(path), "/sys/block/%s/ext_range",
+                      last_component(dev->path));
+         if (r < 0 || r >= sizeof(path))
+                 return MAX_NUM_PARTS;
diff --git a/parted.changes b/parted.changes
index 6d280a5..35cdc11 100644
--- a/parted.changes
+++ b/parted.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Sep  5 12:08:48 UTC 2011 - puzel@suse.com
+
+- add parted-use-ext-range.patch (bnc#715695) 
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Aug 25 10:22:09 UTC 2011 - puzel@novell.com
 
diff --git a/parted.spec b/parted.spec
index 37fcab3..824c2c6 100644
--- a/parted.spec
+++ b/parted.spec
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ Patch11:        do-not-create-dm-nodes.patch
 Patch12:        more-reliable-informing-the-kernel.patch
 Patch13:        parted-2.4-ncursesw6.patch
 Patch14:        parted-gpt-sync-mbr-label.patch
+Patch15:        parted-use-ext-range.patch
 Requires:       /sbin/udevadm
 BuildRequires:  check-devel
 BuildRequires:  device-mapper-devel >= 1.02.33
@@ -105,6 +106,7 @@ to develop applications that require these.
 %patch12 -p1
 %patch13
 %patch14 -p1
+%patch15 -p1
 
 %build
 export CFLAGS="%{optflags} `ncursesw6-config --cflags`"