Public bug reported:
This is an odd bug. cfdisk and fdisk are both showing opposite labels
for my 9th and 10th partitions (GPT). The same bug is present in
gdisk/cgdisk (likely shares the same code). blkid, the linux kernel,
and parted/gparted show the correct partition table (or rather the
kernel matches what I configured into gparted, so that defines
"correct").
Also, if you select "Info" when "Free Space" is highlighted in cfdisk,
the program will crash.
Partitioning disks and having it done in a manner that is deterministic
and reliable is extremely important. It looks like the linux-tools
packages are totally outdated and dangerous on new systems (don't
support GPT), the gdisk/cgdisk packages only support GPT and are buggy,
the gnu-fdisk packages share the bugs and instabilities of gdisk.
Only parted/gparted is reliable. Please make note of this and either
get someone to fix/upgrade gnu-fdisk or just cancel fdisk completely in
support of parted.
Thanks
** Affects: gnu-fdisk (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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fdisk/cfdisk crashes and wrong data
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