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Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 20:00:32 +0200
From: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
To: Alastair Stevens <alastair@camlinux.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Small oddity of the week: 2.4.20-pre
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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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