Package: util-linux
Version: 2.16.2-0
Severity: normal

Hi,

On my system, blkid report LABEL="" for a FAT partition. That's
certainly something blkid users don't expect (like linux-base).

% blkid /dev/sda6 
/dev/sda6: LABEL="" UUID="68F6-270E" TYPE="vfat"
                 ^^ouch


Also, I have attached a dump of that partition, which can reproduce the
problem:

% dd if=/dev/sda6.dd of=/tmp/sda6 bs=2048 count=1
% blkid /tmp/sda6.dd 
/tmp/sda6.dd: LABEL="" UUID="68F6-270E" TYPE="vfat"

Thanks,

Franklin

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (101, 'unstable'), (10, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
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 util-linux depends on:
ii  dpkg                    1.15.5.6         Debian package management system
ii  initscripts             2.87dsf-8.1      scripts for initializing and shutt
ii  install-info            4.13a.dfsg.1-5   Manage installed documentation in 
ii  libblkid1               2.16.2-0         block device id library
ii  libc6                   2.10.2-6         Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libncurses5             5.7+20090803-2   shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libselinux1             2.0.89-4         SELinux runtime shared libraries
ii  libuuid1                2.16.2-0         Universally Unique ID library
ii  lsb-base                3.2-23           Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  tzdata                  2010b-1          time zone and daylight-saving time
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

util-linux recommends no packages.

Versions of packages util-linux suggests:
ii  console-tools              1:0.2.3dbs-68 Linux console and font utilities
ii  dosfstools                 3.0.9-1       utilities for making and checking 
pn  util-linux-locales         <none>        (no description available)

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Attachment: sda6.dd.gz
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