On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 06:30:15PM +0100, Alastair Stevens wrote:
> > > fdisk -l | grep -w "/dev/hda6"
> > >
> > > For some reason, this now produces, entirely at _random_, either one or
> > > two lines of output! It was the duplicated output that broke Mindi.
>
> Here's a typical output:
>
> 1 root@dolphin:/home/alastair> fdisk -l | grep -w "/dev/hda6"
> /dev/hda6 4419 4749 2658726 83 Linux
> /dev/hda6 4419 4749 2658726 83 Linux
> 2 root@dolphin:/home/alastair> fdisk -l | grep -w "/dev/hda6"
> /dev/hda6 4419 4749 2658726 83 Linux
> 3 root@dolphin:/home/alastair> fdisk -l | grep -w "/dev/hda6"
> /dev/hda6 4419 4749 2658726 83 Linux
> 4 root@dolphin:/home/alastair> fdisk -l | grep -w "/dev/hda6"
> /dev/hda6 4419 4749 2658726 83 Linux
>
> ie - the first time, it gives me two repeated lines. This appears to be
> random. In a clean terminal, it'll sometimes give me only the one line
> on the first run, and then do two lines multiple times....
Could it be that you have statistics garbage in /proc/partitions?
That will break fdisk.
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