From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.17.21]:63725 "EHLO mout.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030403AbaDBVyK (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Apr 2014 17:54:10 -0400 Received: from brln-4db84a2f.pool.mediaways.net ([77.184.74.47]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx102) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MP1PX-1WQnsl3sDn-006MS6 for ; Wed, 02 Apr 2014 23:54:09 +0200 From: Ruediger Meier To: util-linux@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: fdisk partition reorder fails Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 23:54:05 +0200 References: <20140402164925.GA13910@aepfle.de> <533C4911.4020406@yahoo.com.ar> In-Reply-To: <533C4911.4020406@yahoo.com.ar> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Message-Id: <201404022354.05958.sweet_f_a@gmx.de> Sender: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 <