Re: FDISK parameters was Re: undelete for partition tables?
Mirek Kwasniak wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 12:54:47PM +0000, Ed Cogburn wrote:
> >
> > I just tried (as root) the three fdisk examples (-l is lowercase
> > L) given above. Only the last one worked: "fdisk -l /dev/hda".
> > The -u does nothing at all. Does anybody else see this behavior,
> > or has my fdisk been lobotomized somehow?
>
> Hi,
> $ fdisk -v
> fdisk v2.9w
>
> $fdisk -l /dev/hda
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1027 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 646 1027 3068415 83 Linux
> /dev/hda2 * 608 645 305235 83 Linux
> /dev/hda3 1 607 4875696 83 Linux
> $ fdisk -l -u /dev/hda
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1027 cylinders
> Units = sectors of 1 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 10361925 16498754 3068415 83 Linux
> /dev/hda2 * 9751455 10361924 305235 83 Linux
> /dev/hda3 63 9751454 4875696 83 Linux
>
> Do you see a difference? To see all disks you can use
>
> fdisk -l -u /dev/hd? /dev/sd?
>
> or try another program
>
> sfdisk -l -uS
>
> Mirek
OK, I'm wrong about -u, it does work; I should have looked
closer. The use of 'fdisk -l', without a device parameter, still
doesn't work even though the man page says it should.
According to Tom's examples and the man page, "fdisk -l" and
"fdisk -l -u" should work without a device parameter, but I get:
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08:00pm /home/ed\> fdisk -v
fdisk v2.9w
08:00pm /home/ed\> fdisk -l
Usage: fdisk [-l] [-b SSZ] [-u] device
E.g.: fdisk /dev/hda (for the first IDE disk)
or: fdisk /dev/sdc (for the third SCSI disk)
or: fdisk /dev/eda (for the first PS/2 ESDI drive)
or: fdisk /dev/rd/c0d0 or: fdisk /dev/ida/c0d0 (for RAID
devices)
...
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Oh, well.
--
Ed C.
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