On Wednesday 02 April 2014, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote: > Looks like similar to this[#1] that I reported some time ago. > > [#1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/util-linux-ng/msg08005.html I've translated Gerardo's example into a reproducable command lines. Do this only on filesystems which support sparse files. Here I've skipped any output for readability: ## create a partition table with a "hole" between partition 5 and 6 $ rm -f testdisk $ truncate -s 2199023255552 testdisk $ sfdisk testdisk <<EOF unit: sectors testdisk1 : start= 2048, size= 131072, Id=83 testdisk2 : start= 133120, size= 41943040, Id=83 testdisk3 : start= 42076160, size= 41943040, Id=83 testdisk4 : start= 84019200, size=3823009968, Id= 5 testdisk5 : start= 84021248, size= 8388608, Id=83 testdisk6 : start=125974528, size=1258291200, Id=83 testdisk7 : start=1384267776, size=2097152000, Id=83 testdisk8 : start=3481421824, size=425607344, Id=83 EOF [... output skipped ...] ## add another partition and print before and after sorting (don't ## write, so this line can be used repeatedly) $ echo -e "n\n\n\np\nx\nf\nr\np\n" | fdisk testdisk [... output skipped ...] ## See that fdisk is not even able to write the partitions correctly ## after adding the 9th partition without sorting. Maybe this is part ## of the bug $ echo -e "n\n\n\np\nw\n" | fdisk testdisk $ fdisk -l testdisk cu, Rudi -- 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
