Package: gdisk
Version: 1.0.1-1
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
Here is the exact output. The result is 100% reproducible, as you
would expect:
[alison@bonnet u-boot (master)]$ truncate -s 16K small.raw
[alison@bonnet u-boot (master)]$ sudo gdisk small.raw
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.1
Partition table scan:
MBR: not present
BSD: not present
APM: not present
GPT: not present
Creating new GPT entries.
Command (? for help): o
This option deletes all partitions and creates a new protective MBR.
Proceed? (Y/N): Y
Command (? for help): p
Disk small.raw: 32 sectors, 16.0 KiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): DC622FAD-F9B3-4E0A-9433-87B4C8D3EFC2
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 18446744073709551614
Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
Total free space is 18446744073709551581 sectors (16.0 EiB)
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
Command (? for help): ^C
[alison@bonnet u-boot (master)]$ ls -l small.raw
-rw-r--r-- 1 alison alison 16384 Aug 27 15:14 small.raw
Probably 16KB is too small for a block device, but I would expect
gdisk to fail with an error rather than print nonsense. This problem
makes me nervous about error-checking in gdisk.
-- Alison Chaiken, ali...@she-devel.com
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=
(charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages gdisk depends on:
ii libc6 2.24-14
ii libgcc1 1:7.2.0-1
ii libncursesw5 6.0+20170715-2
ii libpopt0 1.16-10+b2
ii libstdc++6 7.2.0-1
ii libtinfo5 6.0+20170715-2
ii libuuid1 2.29.2-2
Versions of packages gdisk recommends:
ii groff-base 1.22.3-9
gdisk suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
