Bug 787

Summary:	fdisk fails when disk has no partition table
Product:	Busybox	Reporter:	Jacob Gorm Hansen <jacobg>
Component:	Standard Compliance	Assignee:	unassigned
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	minor	CC:	busybox-cvs
Priority:	P5
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows
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Description Jacob Gorm Hansen 2009-12-09 09:43:22 UTC

When trying to create a partition table on a disk that was previously all zero, fdisk fails with an error. This makes it impossible to ever get a partition table installed.

The correct and compatible behavior would be to possibly print a warning, then proceed to the normal disk UI with an initial empty partition table.

Comment 1 Denys Vlasenko 2010-04-06 00:34:23 UTC

I just tested fdisk on a totally zeroed out 100M image file. It works.