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bug#32666: fdisk output
From: |
Brian C. Lane |
Subject: |
bug#32666: fdisk output |
Date: |
Wed, 24 Apr 2019 08:33:38 -0700 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.11.3 (2019-02-01) |
On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 04:08:26PM +0100, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
> On Apr 22 2019, Phillip Susi <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Nikolaus Rath writes:
> >
> >> /dev/sdb6 739131392 739588095 456704 223M 83 Linux
> >> /dev/sdb7 739588096 773142527 33554432 16G 8e Linux LVM
> >
> > sdb7 starts in the very next sector after sdb6, so there is no room here
> > for the EBR.
>
> ...right, but should that really result in a hard crash of the fdisk
> program? I think the proper behavior would be to print exactly what you
> wrote and exit gracefully :-)
Given the number of times this has come up it's probably worth looking
into changing the assertion to something more understandable.
--
Brian C. Lane (PST8PDT)