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Bug 188488

Summary: RHEL3: "sfdisk -l" tries to open partitions
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Reporter: Bastien Nocera <bnocera>
Component: util-linuxAssignee: Karel Zak <kzak>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Ben Levenson <benl>
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Priority: medium    
Version: 3.0CC: tao
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Fixed In Version: RHBA-2006-0456 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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util-linux-sfdisk-dont-open-partitions.patch none

Description Bastien Nocera 2006-04-10 15:54:14 UTC 
Doing an "sfdisk -l" will try to open partitions as if they were disks, and fail
to read the partition table.

Patch attached. It makes use of the same is_probably_full_disk() as fdisk.
Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2006-04-10 15:54:17 UTC 
Created attachment 127554 [details]
util-linux-sfdisk-dont-open-partitions.patch
Comment 9 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-07-20 14:48:07 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2006-0456.html