diff --git a/src/partition/repart.c b/src/partition/repart.c
index 7147e3065e1..e88e9cd03d7 100644
--- a/src/partition/repart.c
+++ b/src/partition/repart.c
@@ -2562,7 +2562,7 @@ static int context_load_partition_table(Context *context) {
 
                 if (IN_SET(arg_empty, EMPTY_REQUIRE, EMPTY_FORCE, EMPTY_CREATE) && S_ISREG(st.st_mode))
                         /* Don't probe sector size from partition table if we are supposed to start from an empty disk */
-                        fs_secsz = ssz = 512;
+                        ssz = 512;
                 else {
                         /* Auto-detect sector size if not specified. */
                         r = probe_sector_size_prefer_ioctl(context->backing_fd, &ssz);