On 9/16/2015 2:47 AM, Shane Kerr wrote: > Anyway, I proceeded to try a new partition: > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > (parted) n
n is for name, to name a partition. To create a new one you use mkpart. > Warning: The driver descriptor says the physical block size is 2048 bytes, but > Linux says it is 512 bytes. > Ignore/Cancel? c > Partition number? > Partition number? 1 > Backtrace has 8 calls on stack: Brian fixed this already not too long ago, it just hasn't been released yet: commit f5c628dd51c7d77ff939554425159ab6e8aef1c0 Author: Brian C. Lane <b...@redhat.com> Date: Mon Jul 13 16:43:11 2015 -0700 parted: Fix crash with name command and no disklabel (#1226067) A typo (the last I think) from commit 7eac058 wasn't properly checking the result of ped_disk_new so it could crash if there was no disklabel on the device.