On Sat, Nov 03, 2012 at 02:35:11PM -0400, Dave Reisner wrote: > Hi, > > A user reported problems with libblkid incorrectly reporting (or not > reporting) tags for some partitions on a GPT formatted disk. I was able > to reproduce it: > > - created a 10G disk on a VM > - initialized it with GPT (using gdisk), created 5 entries > - formatted each of them with ext4 > > blkid correctly reads the first 2 entries on the disk, but then starts > reporting corrupted GPT entries (seen via LIBBLKID_DEBUG=0xffff): > > https://dev.archlinux.org/~dreisner/blkid_bad.txt It would be nice to have the debug output. Please, send me begin of the device: # dd if=/dev/vdd of=img count=1 bs=1Mib # gzip -9 img > It's interesting to note that blkid will _always_ read 2 entries before > reporting corruption, i.e. Hmm... sounds like in-memory buffer corruption libblkid caches the data from the device). > # blkid -c /dev/null /dev/vdd{4,5,2} Are you able to reproduce the bug by "blkid -p -o udev" ? Karel -- Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> http://karelzak.blogspot.com -- 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