https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=754789 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=754789#c Petr Uzel changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Priority|P5 - None |P3 - Medium Status|NEW |ASSIGNED Component|Other |Basesystem AssignedTo|puzel@suse.com |bnc-team-screening@forge.pr | |ovo.novell.com -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=754789 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=754789#c1 Petr Uzel changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |NEEDINFO InfoProvider| |dan.mares@norcrossgroup.com --- Comment #1 from Petr Uzel 2012-04-01 10:01:40 UTC --- I tried to reproduce. It is true that sfdisk spits out an ERROR about missing msdos signature, but creates the partition table and partition entry anyways (see the transcript below). Could you please be more specific on what exactly is the problem in your case? Thanks in advance.

dhcp12:~ # lsscsi [3:0:0:0] disk Linux scsi_debug 0004 /dev/sda

dhcp12:~ # cat /etc/SuSE-release openSUSE 12.1 (i586) VERSION = 12.1 CODENAME = Asparagus

dhcp12:~ # rpm -q util-linux util-linux-2.20.1-1.8.1.i586

dhcp12:~ # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=4096 dd: writing `/dev/sda': No space left on device 2049+0 records in 2048+0 records out 8388608 bytes (8.4 MB) copied, 0.0187378 s, 448 MB/s

dhcp12:~ # cat /root/input ,,7

dhcp12:~ # sfdisk /dev/sda < input Checking that no-one is using this disk right now ... OK

Disk /dev/sda: 64 cylinders, 8 heads, 32 sectors/track

sfdisk: ERROR: sector 0 does not have an msdos signature /dev/sda: unrecognized partition table type Old situation: No partitions found New situation: Units = cylinders of 131072 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System /dev/sda1 0+ 63 64- 8191+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda2 0 - 0 0 0 Empty /dev/sda3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty /dev/sda4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty Warning: no primary partition is marked bootable (active) This does not matter for LILO, but the DOS MBR will not boot this disk. Successfully wrote the new partition table

Re-reading the partition table ...

If you created or changed a DOS partition, /dev/foo7, say, then use dd(1) to zero the first 512 bytes: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/foo7 bs=512 count=1 (See fdisk(8).)

dhcp12:~ # parted -s /dev/sda unit s print Model: Linux scsi_debug (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 16384s Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 1s 16383s 16383s primary type=07

dhcp12:~ # cat /proc/partitions | grep sda 8 0 8192 sda 8 1 8191 sda1

dhcp12:~ # ll /dev/sda brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 0 Apr 1 11:56 /dev/sda

dhcp12:~ # ll /dev/sda1 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 Apr 1 11:55 /dev/sda1

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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=754789 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=754789#c3 Petr Uzel changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |RESOLVED InfoProvider|dan.mares@norcrossgroup.com | Resolution| |WORKSFORME --- Comment #3 from Petr Uzel 2012-04-02 17:19:45 UTC --- I can not reproduce this even with 3TB drive. Moreover, I got a message from the reporter that he has a workaround and is no longer interested in resolution, so there's hardly anything I can do. Closing as WORKSFORME. Dan, please feel free to reopen if you wish to pursue this further. Thanks. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=754789 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=754789#c Petr Uzel changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|REOPENED |ASSIGNED -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=754789 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=754789#c6 --- Comment #6 from Petr Uzel 2012-04-06 14:55:42 UTC --- Created an attachment (id=485186) --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=485186) fix type mismatch patch This patch fixes the issue for me. It has been also submitted upstream. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=754789 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=754789#c8 Benjamin Brunner changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |ASSIGNED InfoProvider|maintenance@opensuse.org | --- Comment #8 from Benjamin Brunner 2012-04-11 13:28:13 CEST --- Petr could you do an osc maintenancerequest please. We'll start an update. Thanks. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=754789 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=754789#c10 --- Comment #10 from Bernhard Wiedemann 2012-04-12 12:00:08 CEST --- This is an autogenerated message for OBS integration: This bug (754789) was mentioned in https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/113321 Factory / util-linux -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.