$ dd if=/dev/zero of=zero bs=1K count=1 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 1024 bytes (1.0 kB) copied, 0.000146148 s, 7.0 MB/s
$ parted zero disk_set WARNING: You are not superuser. Watch out for permissions. Error: /home/user1/zero: unrecognised disk label You found a bug in GNU Parted! Here's what you have to do: [...] Also include any additional information about your setup you consider important. Command History: Segmentation fault (core dumped) $ parted --version | head -1 parted (GNU parted) 3.2 $ uname -a Linux host1 3.17.6-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Dec 7 23:43:32 UTC 2014 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ valgrind parted zero disk_set |& head -20 ==14358== Memcheck, a memory error detector [...] Error: /home/user1/zero: unrecognised disk label ==14358== Invalid read of size 8 ==14358== at 0x4E458D0: ped_disk_is_flag_available (in /usr/lib/libparted.so.2.0.1) ==14358== by 0x40B676: command_line_get_disk_flag (in /usr/bin/parted) ==14358== by 0x40674B: ??? (in /usr/bin/parted) ==14358== by 0x40C8B1: non_interactive_mode (in /usr/bin/parted) ==14358== by 0x405F47: main (in /usr/bin/parted) ==14358== Address 0x8 is not stack'd, malloc'd or (recently) free'd ==14358==