From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
To: Ruediger Meier <sweet_f_a@gmx.de>
Cc: Thomas Bechtold <tbechtold@suse.com>, util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sfdisk input parsing broken with 2.26.1
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 18:05:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150416160532.GE6757@ws.net.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201504161351.23675.sweet_f_a@gmx.de>
On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 01:51:22PM +0200, Ruediger Meier wrote:
> BTW I've noticed that since 2.26 --dump produces incompatible dump
> files.
Yes, this is expected behavior.
> Shouldn't we have at least backward compatibility, i.e. old
> dumps still work with new sfdisk?
yes
> >>> Script header accepted.
> >>> Created a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier 0xdf10c8b1.
> Created a new partition 1 of type 'Linux' and of size 100 GiB.
> Start sector 0 out of range.
> Failed to add partition: Numerical result out of range
> /tmp/image2: Leaving.
This is bug introduces probably later when I learned libfdisk to
accept zero size/offsets.
Fixed, will be in v2.26.2 (probably next week).
Karel
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-16 9:59 sfdisk input parsing broken with 2.26.1 Thomas Bechtold
2015-04-16 11:24 ` Karel Zak
2015-04-16 11:51 ` Ruediger Meier
2015-04-16 16:05 ` Karel Zak [this message]
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