Bug 49356

Summary:	sfdisk reload partitions don't work
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	eric gerbier <eric.gerbier>
Component:	util-linux	Assignee:	Elliot Lee <sopwith>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description eric gerbier 2001-07-18 15:12:28 UTC

Description of Problem:
I follow the man page to save and reload :
I save my partitions to a file with sfdisk -d
but I can't reload with a sfdisk < my_fic
the problem seem with units (it save in sectors, and it want to load
cylinders)
the -u option don't change anything (does it work ?) 

How Reproducible:
very easy

Steps to Reproduce:
1. sfdisk -d /dev/hda > /tmp/toto
2.  sfdisk /dev/hda < /tmp/toto
3. 

Actual Results:


Expected Results:


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Comment 1 eric gerbier 2001-07-19 09:39:22 UTC

I just made some test, and I found that the program failed on the first line :
"N0 table de partition de /dev/hda"

The following commands works
sfdisk -uS -d  /dev/hda  > /tmp/hda
awk 'NR > 1' /tmp/hda | sfdisk -uS /dev/hda

So I have to change my locale to posix (I have LANG=fr_FR )
and it works well with the first line : it's a LANG problem !!!!

Comment 2 eric gerbier 2001-07-19 11:18:51 UTC

this is a translation problem (gettext) :
in french, the first line writed by sfdisk don't begin with a #