Subject: Re: bug#35378: bug in parted
From: Phillip Susi <[email-masked]>
To: Mikhail Kagalenko <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2019 13:51:15 -0400
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Mikhail Kagalenko writes:
> Assertion (metadata_length > 0) at ../../../libparted/labels/dos.c:2313 in
> function add_logical_part_metadata() failed.

This happens because parted requires a space between logical partitions
to put the EBR.  Some other unknown parittioning tool under unknown
circumstances violates this constraint.