Hello there! After creating a rather small partition on a pendrive (1000KB) I used partprobe and got the following:
Backtrace has 12 calls on stack: 12: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libparted.so.0(ped_assert+0x2e) [0x7fc80e84e2ee] 11: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libparted.so.0(+0x3e04d) [0x7fc80e87804d] 10: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libparted.so.0(+0x3e43e) [0x7fc80e87843e] 9: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libparted.so.0(+0x40c73) [0x7fc80e87ac73] 8: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libparted.so.0(ped_disk_add_partition+0x163) [0x7fc80e854053] 7: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libparted.so.0(+0x3f72b) [0x7fc80e87972b] 6: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libparted.so.0(+0x407c3) [0x7fc80e87a7c3] 5: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libparted.so.0(ped_disk_new+0x58) [0x7fc80e8544f8] 4: partprobe() [0x4013a0] 3: partprobe(main+0x20e) [0x4011fe] 2: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x7fc80d7f4ead] 1: partprobe() [0x401249] A bug has been detected in GNU Parted. Refer to the web site of parted http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html for more information of what could be useful for bug submitting! Please email a bug report to bug-parted@gnu.org containing at least the version (2.3) and the following message: Assertion (head_size > 0) at ../../../libparted/labels/dos.c:661 in function probe_partition_for_geom() failed. Abgebrochen I hope this is helpful in some way. Do you need any more information? Thanks for all your awsome work so far and all the best for the future! A loyal fan and user of GNU software