[Bug 337321] Re: sfdisk doesn't accept blank for start value with -uS

[Ayan George]

sfdisk has been pretty much completely re-written since v2.14.  I can't
reproduce this under Xenial -- sfdisk works as described in the man
page.

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Title:
  sfdisk doesn't accept blank for start value with -uS

Status in util-linux package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: util-linux

  Release: 8.10
  util-linux: 2.14-1ubuntu2

  According to the man-page this should work:
  sfdisk -uS /dev/sdb << EOF
  63,546147,82,-
  ,512000
  EOF

  I got these values by creating the 256MB partition in fdisk, then list the values with sfdisk -l /dev/sdb and then deleting all partitions again in fdisk.
  The first line creates a 256MB Swap partition as /dev/sdb1. The second line should create a partition 512000 sectors large right behind that. The problem is that
  ,<Size>
  isn't being accepted, the problem seems to be omitting the starting point.
  The first line on it's own works.
  Only when I enter the correct starting point (546210) at the beginning of the second line it works.
  The problem seems to be -uS specific, -uM works.

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