GNU bug report logs - #32666
Assertion (metadata_length > 0) failed

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Package: parted;

Reported by: Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus <at> rath.org>

Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2018 20:35:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Phillip Susi <phill <at> thesusis.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #22 received at 32666 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus <at> rath.org>
To: Phillip Susi <phill <at> thesusis.net>
Cc: 32666 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#32666: fdisk output
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2019 16:08:26 +0100

On Apr 22 2019, Phillip Susi <phill <at> thesusis.net> wrote:
> Nikolaus Rath writes:
>
>> /dev/sdb6       739131392 739588095    456704   223M 83 Linux
>> /dev/sdb7       739588096 773142527  33554432    16G 8e Linux LVM
>
> sdb7 starts in the very next sector after sdb6, so there is no room here
> for the EBR.

...right, but should that really result in a hard crash of the fdisk
program? I think the proper behavior would be to print exactly what you
wrote and exit gracefully :-)


Best,
-Nikolaus

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