Package: util-linux
Version: 2.29.2-1+deb9u1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
when trying to use cfdisk to view the partitions on a USB thumb drive with an
image of a ChromeOS recovery disk on it
( specifically chromeos_10176.76.0_terra_recovery_stable-channel_mp-v2.bin )
instead of cfdisk running, cfdisk merely prints out
cfdisk: libfdisk/src/table.c:409: new_freespace: Assertion `end > start' failed.
Aborted
and does not run any further.
fdisk can load this disk -
fdisk /dev/sdb , p gives:
Disk /dev/sdb: 3.8 GiB, 4048551936 bytes, 7907328 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
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: FADF1998-E292-1A43-975C-0BF190FDC25F
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sdb1 4415488 4435967 20480 10M Microsoft basic data
/dev/sdb2 20480 53247 32768 16M ChromeOS kernel
/dev/sdb3 319488 4415487 4096000 2G ChromeOS root fs
/dev/sdb4 53248 86015 32768 16M ChromeOS kernel
/dev/sdb5 315392 319487 4096 2M ChromeOS root fs
/dev/sdb6 16448 16448 1 512B ChromeOS kernel
/dev/sdb7 16449 16449 1 512B ChromeOS root fs
/dev/sdb8 86016 118783 32768 16M Microsoft basic data
/dev/sdb9 16450 16450 1 512B ChromeOS reserved
/dev/sdb10 16451 16451 1 512B ChromeOS reserved
/dev/sdb11 64 16447 16384 8M unknown
/dev/sdb12 249856 315391 65536 32M EFI System
Partition table entries are not in disk order.
Command (m for help):
lsusb gives
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 090c:1000 Silicon Motion, Inc. - Taiwan (formerly Feiya
Technology Corp.) Flash Drive
While it's plausible that ChromeOS has made some kind of mangled filesystem, or
even that the disk
itself has bad sectors(??) ...in both cases cfdisk should behave differently
1) if the disk is bad, it should say as much
2) if it's ChromeOS's filesystem which is not written properly, it should load
a screen much like fdisk does anyway,
or present the option to do something about the situation(format?)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.4
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_CA:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages util-linux depends on:
ii libblkid1 2.29.2-1+deb9u1
ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u3
ii libfdisk1 2.29.2-1+deb9u1
ii libmount1 2.29.2-1+deb9u1
ii libncursesw5 6.0+20161126-1+deb9u2
ii libpam0g 1.1.8-3.6
ii libselinux1 2.6-3+b3
ii libsmartcols1 2.29.2-1+deb9u1
ii libsystemd0 232-25+deb9u3
ii libtinfo5 6.0+20161126-1+deb9u2
ii libudev1 232-25+deb9u3
ii libuuid1 2.29.2-1+deb9u1
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-5
util-linux recommends no packages.
Versions of packages util-linux suggests:
pn dosfstools <none>
ii kbd 2.0.3-2+b1
ii util-linux-locales 2.29.2-1+deb9u1
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