Hi, This ... $ rm -f xxx; truncate -s 10M xxx $ echo -ne "g\nx\ni\n26841E90-46E0-4205-B012-4B8AEC35C088\nr\nw\nq\n" | fdisk xxx ... creates a broken gpt image on 32bit big endian systems. "hexdiff" xxx-broken xxx-good: 00000260 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| * 009ffe00 45 46 49 20 50 41 52 54 00 00 01 00 00 02 00 00 |EFI PART........| -009ffe10 68 a5 49 d1 00 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff |h.I.............| +009ffe10 15 b9 f3 7e 00 00 00 00 ff 4f 00 00 00 00 00 00 |...~.....O......| 009ffe20 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| 009ffe30 de 4f 00 00 00 00 00 00 90 1e 84 26 e0 46 05 42 |.O.........&.F.B| 009ffe40 b0 12 4b 8a ec 35 c0 88 df 4f 00 00 00 00 00 00 |..K..5...O......| Looks like the backup header is broken. Notes: - I only used fixed uuid to have better diff. - 64bit big endian systems are not broken 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