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Description of problem: Using fdisk, attempted to delete a sequence of partitions by giving a range of partitions (n-m) to the d command rather than giving them one at a time, repeating the d command as needed. What fdisk did was delete the first partition and decremented the partition number of all subsequent partitions, such that each partition <n> became partition <n-1>. Surprisingly different from the expected result, deleting partitions n-m. Surprises from fdisk is "not a good thing". (TM) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.19.1-1.fc15 How reproducible: While using fdisk, enter the d (delete) command and enter a range of partitions similar in construction to the range of deletable partition numbers. Steps to Reproduce: 1. fdisk /dev/fdisk 2. p 3. d 4. 5-17 5. p 6. q Actual results: Partition 5 was deleted. Partitions 6-17 were decremented to partitions 5-16 respectively. The attached text file shows the input and output of an fdisk invocation that illustrates the partition deletion issue being reported. Expected results: Either report "5-17" as an invalid partition number or delete partitions 5-17. Additional info: With mounting via UUID, renumbering partitions isn't as disastrous as it would be when mounting by partition number, but some people still mount via the raw special block devices, even on Fedora.
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