Bug 25713

Summary:	fdisk loops endlessly due to empty partition
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Michael Young <m.a.young>
Component:	util-linux	Assignee:	Erik Troan <ewt>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version:	7.1	CC:	twaugh
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Description Michael Young 2001-02-02 14:00:45 UTC

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I created an empty extended partition during install (with fdisk). Now that
the system is running if I try to run fdisk on the disk, it loops endlessly
with the error "omitting empty partition (5)" constantly repeated.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. run fdisk /dev/hda on my machine.
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Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2001-02-02 15:00:28 UTC

Same here.  This last worked in util-linux-2.10m-12.

Comment 2 Glen Foster 2001-02-02 22:57:21 UTC

We (Red Hat) should really fix this before next release

Comment 3 Erik Troan 2001-02-06 19:40:02 UTC

Tim, can you send me your partition table please? Just the first 1k of the
device will do.

Comment 4 Erik Troan 2001-02-06 20:52:22 UTC

Fixed in util-linux-2.10p-5, and forwarded to util-linux maintainers.