Comment 7 for bug 1441930

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Mauricio Faria de Oliveira (mfo) wrote :

BTW, but not too important:

There's a quite repetitive verbose output during update-grub, mentioning:
  ERROR: unsupported sector size 4096 on <partition>.

It happens because os-prober calls dmraid for every partition, but it doesn't support 4k sectors, and yields to stderr.
A simple redirect quiets it up.
... I'm not sure it should be quieted up :) feel free to modify the scripts if you think so, or tell me and I can submit another patch.

 ~ # dmraid -r -c
 ERROR: unsupported sector size 4096 on /dev/sda.
 ERROR: unsupported sector size 4096 on /dev/sdb.
 ERROR: unsupported sector size 4096 on /dev/sdc.
 ERROR: unsupported sector size 4096 on /dev/sdd.
 ERROR: unsupported sector size 4096 on /dev/sde.
 ERROR: unsupported sector size 4096 on /dev/sdf.
 ERROR: unsupported sector size 4096 on /dev/sdg.
 ERROR: unsupported sector size 4096 on /dev/sdh.
 ERROR: unsupported sector size 4096 on /dev/sdi.
 ERROR: unsupported sector size 4096 on /dev/sdj.
 ERROR: unsupported sector size 4096 on /dev/sdk.
 ERROR: unsupported sector size 4096 on /dev/sdl.
 ERROR: unsupported sector size 4096 on /dev/dm-0.
 ERROR: unsupported sector size 4096 on /dev/dm-1.
 ERROR: unsupported sector size 4096 on /dev/dm-2.
 ERROR: unsupported sector size 4096 on /dev/dm-3.
 ERROR: unsupported sector size 4096 on /dev/dm-4.
 ERROR: unsupported sector size 4096 on /dev/dm-5.
 ERROR: unsupported sector size 4096 on /dev/dm-6.
 ERROR: unsupported sector size 4096 on /dev/dm-7.
 ERROR: unsupported sector size 4096 on /dev/dm-8.
 ERROR: unsupported sector size 4096 on /dev/dm-9.
 ERROR: unsupported sector size 4096 on /dev/dm-10.
 ERROR: unsupported sector size 4096 on /dev/dm-11.
 ERROR: unsupported sector size 4096 on /dev/dm-12.
 ERROR: unsupported sector size 4096 on /dev/dm-13.
 ERROR: unsupported sector size 4096 on /dev/dm-14.
 ERROR: unsupported sector size 4096 on /dev/dm-15.
 ERROR: unsupported sector size 4096 on /dev/dm-16.
 ERROR: unsupported sector size 4096 on /dev/dm-17.
 no block devices found
 ~ #

 ~ # dmraid -r -c 2>/dev/null
 no block devices found