On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 01:13:49PM +0100, Allison Karlitskaya wrote: > hi, > > [1.] One line summary of the problem: > BLKPG_DEL_PARTITION on an empty loopback device used to return ENXIO > but now returns EINVAL, breaking partprobe Note that partx from util-linux also assumes ENXIO, and this errno is interpreted as non-error ("ignore this partition"). Karel -- Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> http://karelzak.blogspot.com