If you run partx -d to delete partitions, and there are gaps in the sequence ( partition 2 exists, but 1 doesn't ), then it would complain that it had errors trying to remove the partitions that already don't exist. Changed to ignore the error when errno == ENXIO. Signed-off-by: Phillip Susi <psusi@xxxxxxxxxx> --- partx/partx.c | 7 ++++++- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/partx/partx.c b/partx/partx.c index 2510ffb..50b0c20 100644 --- a/partx/partx.c +++ b/partx/partx.c @@ -303,10 +303,15 @@ static int del_parts(int fd, const char *device, dev_t devno, } for (i = lower; i <= upper; i++) { - if (partx_del_partition(fd, i) == 0) { + rc = partx_del_partition(fd, i); + if (rc == 0) { if (verbose) printf(_("%s: partition #%d removed\n"), device, i); continue; + } else if (errno == ENXIO) { + if (verbose) + printf(_("%s: partition #%d already doesn't exist\n"), device, i); + continue; } rc = -1; if (verbose) -- 1.7.5.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html