diff -aur parted/libparted/arch/linux.c tmp/parted-3.5/libparted/arch/linux.c
--- parted/libparted/arch/linux.c	2022-11-04 10:14:33.551737324 +0100
+++ tmp/parted-3.5/libparted/arch/linux.c	2022-04-18 20:38:45.000000000 +0200
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@
 
 #define PROC_DEVICES_BUFSIZ 16384
 
-#include <syslog.h>
 #include <config.h>
 #include <arch/linux.h>
 #include <linux/blkpg.h>
@@ -44,7 +43,6 @@
 #include <assert.h>
 #include <sys/sysmacros.h>
 #ifdef ENABLE_DEVICE_MAPPER
-
 #include <libdevmapper.h>
 #endif
 
@@ -89,8 +87,6 @@
 #define WR_MODE (O_WRONLY)
 #define RW_MODE (O_RDWR)
 
-int syslog_init;
-
 struct hd_geometry {
         unsigned char heads;
         unsigned char sectors;
@@ -1600,11 +1596,6 @@
                                 _("ped_device_new()  Unsupported device type"));
                 goto error_free_arch_specific;
         }
-        if (!syslog_init) {
-                openlog("parted", LOG_PID, LOG_USER);
-                syslog_init = 1;
-        }
-        syslog(LOG_INFO, "parted: new: %p\n", dev);
         return dev;
 
 error_free_arch_specific:
@@ -1620,8 +1611,6 @@
 static void
 linux_destroy (PedDevice* dev)
 {
-        syslog(LOG_INFO, "parted: destroy: %p\n", dev);
-
         LinuxSpecific *arch_specific = LINUX_SPECIFIC(dev);
         void *p = arch_specific->dmtype;