control: reassign -1 fdisk 2.36-2 control: retitle -1 Regression in sfdisk
I have traced the cause fo the nbdkit build failures (e.g. [1] to what seems to be a regression in sfdisk that manifests itself in a "No space left on device" error when creating some trivial partitioned disk images. ,---- | $ truncate -s 1G diskfile | $ /sbin/sfdisk diskfile <<"EOF" | 2048 1023 L - | 4096 4095 L - | 8192 8191 L - | EOF | Checking that no-one is using this disk right now ... OK | | Disk diskfile: 1 GiB, 1073741824 bytes, 2097152 sectors | Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes | Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes | I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes | | >>> Created a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier 0x2ac58cda. | diskfile1: Created a new partition 1 of type 'Linux' and of size 511.5 KiB. | diskfile2: Created a new partition 2 of type 'Linux' and of size 2 MiB. | diskfile3: No free sectors available. | Failed to add #3 partition: No space left on device | Leaving. `---- This worked just fine on Debian/buster (fdisk/2.33.1-0.1). I'll be investigating further. Cheers, -Hilko [1] https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=nbdkit&arch=amd64&ver=1.20.6-1&stamp=1597140669&raw=0
