cloud-init issues with new sfdisk

[Pádraig Brady]

On 02/03/15 05:30, Dusty Mabe wrote:
> 
> The "new" sfdisk that was rewritten (see [1]) doesn't support an option that 
> is used by growpart (which is used by cloud-init). Below is the error that occurs
> in the TC7 compose at [2]:
> 
> [root at t7 ~]# growpart --dry-run /dev/vda 1                                                                                                                                                                    
> failed [sfd_geom:1] sfdisk /dev/vda --show-pt-geometry
> sfdisk: unrecognized option '--show-pt-geometry'
> 
> Does anyone know of an existing bug report for this? If not I'll write one up.
> 
> Dusty
> 
> [1] - https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/commit/1881390de25df8587b8fc281c451796f7d032dd3#diff-31d5cc325380dbdafe64d0e019846f12R20
> [2] - http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=9097429

You're right that that option was removed with:
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git/commit/?id=v2.25-251-g1881390

Now it's a very little used option, and according to the following,
growpart seems to be the only user.:
http://codesearch.debian.net/results/show-pt-geometry/page_1

Karel is there an alternative that growpart could use?

thanks,
Pádraig.