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: ********************************** 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) ... ********************************** Oh, well. -- Ed C.