Package: parted Version: 2.3-16 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I recently updated my Debian sid and, since this update, I have a failure when creating a primary partition on a loopback device. The exact same commands used to work and have been tested on an Ubuntu with parted 2.3.
The error is: Error: Error informing the kernel about modifications to partition /dev/loop1p1 -- Invalid argument. This means Linux won't know about any changes you made to /dev/loop1p1 until you reboot -- so you shouldn't mount it or use it in any way before rebooting. Error: Failed to add partition 1 (Invalid argument) Here are the commands to reproduce: root#qemu-img create -f raw test.img 1000M root#losetup /dev/loop1 test.img root#kpartx -a /dev/loop1 root# parted --align optimal --script /dev/loop1 -- mklabel msdos root# parted /dev/loop1 GNU Parted 2.3 Using /dev/loop1 Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands. (parted) p Model: Loopback device (loop) Disk /dev/loop1: 1049MB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Flags (parted) q root# parted --align optimal --script /dev/loop1 -- mkpart primary ext4 32k -1 Warning: The resulting partition is not properly aligned for best performance. Error: Error informing the kernel about modifications to partition /dev/loop1p1 -- Invalid argument. This means Linux won't know about any changes you made to /dev/loop1p1 until you reboot -- so you shouldn't mount it or use it in any way before rebooting. Error: Failed to add partition 1 (Invalid argument) root# parted /dev/loop1 GNU Parted 2.3 Using /dev/loop1 Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands. (parted) p Model: Loopback device (loop) Disk /dev/loop1: 1049MB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 32.3kB 1049MB 1049MB primary (parted) q Primary partition appear, but with no file system, and return code is an error. -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages parted depends on: ii libc6 2.17-93 ii libparted0debian1 2.3-16 ii libreadline6 6.2+dfsg-0.1 ii libtinfo5 5.9+20130608-1 parted recommends no packages. Versions of packages parted suggests: pn parted-doc <none> -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
