[Parted-maintainers] Bug#671293: parted and drbd don't play well together

[Micah Anderson]

Package: parted
Version: 2.3-9.1
Severity: normal

When using parted on a drbd device as follows:

/sbin/parted --script /dev/drbd0 mktable msdos
/sbin/parted --script /dev/drbd0 -- mkpart primary 8192s -1

I receive this:

Error: Error informing the kernel about modifications to partition /dev/drbd0p1 -- Invalid argument.  This means Linux won't know about any changes you made to /dev/drbd0p1 until you reboot -- so you shouldn't mount it or use it in any way before rebooting.
Error: Failed to add partition 1 (Invalid argument)

It seems like parted is trying to get the kernel to acknowledge the new partition, which isn't something
I care about with drbd, and I don't want a non-zero error code as a result.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages parted depends on:
ii  libblkid1           2.20.1-4
ii  libc6               2.13-31
ii  libdevmapper1.02.1  2:1.02.67-2
ii  libparted0debian1   2.3-9.1
ii  libreadline6        6.2-8
ii  libtinfo5           5.9-6
ii  libuuid1            2.20.1-4

parted recommends no packages.

Versions of packages parted suggests:
pn  parted-doc  <none>

-- no debconf information