diff --git a/0001-supress-partx-usage-error.patch b/0001-supress-partx-usage-error.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1279a5d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/0001-supress-partx-usage-error.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+From e14d60d17e4447a92c5127e0a5cc3312e0215014 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Juerg Haefliger <juerg.haefliger@hp.com>
+Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 09:40:21 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] supress partx usage error
+
+---
+ bin/growpart | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/bin/growpart b/bin/growpart
+index 85c2d1f..595c40b 100755
+--- a/bin/growpart
++++ b/bin/growpart
+@@ -448,7 +448,7 @@ verify_ptupdate() {
+ 	fi
+ 
+ 	if command -v partx >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+-		partx --help | grep -q -- --update || {
++		partx --help 2>/dev/null | grep -q -- --update || {
+ 			reason="partx has no '--update' flag in usage."
+ 			found="off"
+ 		}
+-- 
+1.8.3.2
+
diff --git a/cloud-utils.spec b/cloud-utils.spec
index 7cea254..9b22fcf 100644
--- a/cloud-utils.spec
+++ b/cloud-utils.spec
@@ -1,13 +1,14 @@
 Summary:	Cloud image management utilities
 Name:		cloud-utils
 Version:	0.27
-Release:	9%{?dist}
+Release:	10%{?dist}
 License:	GPLv3
 Group:		System Environment/Base
 URL:		https://launchpad.net/cloud-utils/trunk/0.27/+download/cloud-utils-0.27.tar.gz
 
 Source0:	%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
-Source1:        LICENSE
+Source1:	LICENSE
+Patch0:		0001-supress-partx-usage-error.patch
 
 # Don't build the cloud-utils main package on EPEL architectures that don't
 # have qemu-img. Which means we need to make it a no-noarch package for EPEL
@@ -65,6 +66,7 @@ package to grow the root partition on first boot.
 
 %prep
 %setup -q
+%patch0 -p1
 
 
 %build
@@ -118,6 +120,9 @@ cp man/growpart.* $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_mandir}/man1/
 
 
 %changelog
+* Fri Nov 22 2013 Juerg Haefliger <juergh@gmail.com> - 0.27-10
+- [966574] growpart spits out a non-fatal error
+
 * Fri Aug 16 2013 Juerg Haefliger <juergh@gmail.com> - 0.27-9
 - Prevent building of debuginfo packages.
 - Fix 32-bit arch type.