[Bug 1921009] [NEW] Failure applying dump from m.5 drive to SCSI drive

[Kevin O'Gorman]

Public bug reported:

I have a dump from an M.5 drive named "/dev/nvme0n1" that I wanted to
apply to a regular SCSI drive /dev/sdc.  This got the GPT built but when
it tried to work on partitions, it failed, giving the error message
sfdisk: failed to parse partition number: '/dev/sdc'

This is probably due to the oddity of drive names for M.5 drives -- they
end in a digit, so a "p" is inserted before the actual partition
numbers.  So the first partition may appear to be "p1" instead of "1".
I know, I ran into it working on some software of my own.

Anyway, the dump is attached.  Try applying it to a regular "/dev/sd?"
drive and you will prpbably see the same thing.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: fdisk 2.34-0.1ubuntu9.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-66.74-generic 5.4.86
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-66-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.16
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Tue Mar 23 14:39:53 2021
SourcePackage: util-linux
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2021-02-19 (32 days ago)

** Affects: util-linux (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug focal

** Attachment added: "output of sfdisk --dump on M.5 drive (/dev/nvme0n1)"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1921009/+attachment/5480322/+files/dump.txt

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Title:
  Failure applying dump from m.5 drive to SCSI drive

Status in util-linux package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I have a dump from an M.5 drive named "/dev/nvme0n1" that I wanted to
  apply to a regular SCSI drive /dev/sdc.  This got the GPT built but
  when it tried to work on partitions, it failed, giving the error
  message sfdisk: failed to parse partition number: '/dev/sdc'

  This is probably due to the oddity of drive names for M.5 drives --
  they end in a digit, so a "p" is inserted before the actual partition
  numbers.  So the first partition may appear to be "p1" instead of "1".
  I know, I ran into it working on some software of my own.

  Anyway, the dump is attached.  Try applying it to a regular "/dev/sd?"
  drive and you will prpbably see the same thing.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
  Package: fdisk 2.34-0.1ubuntu9.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-66.74-generic 5.4.86
  Uname: Linux 5.4.0-66-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: wl
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.16
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
  CurrentDesktop: XFCE
  Date: Tue Mar 23 14:39:53 2021
  SourcePackage: util-linux
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2021-02-19 (32 days ago)

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