Ed Cogburn wrote: > > 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)
Ed, Just for reference, on slink (fdisk v2.9g) I get the output shown below, and I've never seen fdisk NOT work this way. It also works this way on my potato installation, but the version I have there is 2.9r I believe. At any rate, it's not v2.9w version like you have - I have not updated potato is quite a while. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# fdisk -l Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 784 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 65 522081 b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hda2 66 130 522112+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M /dev/hda3 131 212 658665 b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hda4 213 783 4586557+ 5 Extended /dev/hda5 213 414 1622533+ 83 Linux native /dev/hda6 415 544 1044193+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M /dev/hda7 545 560 128488+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M /dev/hda8 561 783 1791216 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 784 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb1 1 65 522081 83 Linux native /dev/hdb2 66 147 658665 b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hdb3 148 195 385560 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M /dev/hdb4 196 783 4723110 5 Extended /dev/hdb5 196 212 136521 82 Linux swap /dev/hdb6 213 289 618471 83 Linux native /dev/hdb7 290 366 618471 83 Linux native /dev/hdb8 367 398 257008+ 83 Linux native /dev/hdb9 399 523 1004031 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M /dev/hdb10 524 783 2088418+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M Disk /dev/hdc: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1653 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdc1 1 255 2048256 83 Linux native /dev/hdc2 * 256 447 1542240 83 Linux native /dev/hdc3 448 532 682762+ 83 Linux native /dev/hdc4 533 1651 8988367+ f Win95 Extended (LBA) /dev/hdc5 533 549 136521 82 Linux swap /dev/hdc6 550 651 819283+ 83 Linux native /dev/hdc7 652 779 1028128+ 83 Linux native /dev/hdc8 780 786 56196 83 Linux native /dev/hdc9 787 850 514048+ 7 OS/2 HPFS /dev/hdc10 851 914 514048+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M /dev/hdc11 915 1001 698796 b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hdc12 1002 1078 618471 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M /dev/hdc13 1079 1270 1542208+ 83 Linux native /dev/hdc14 1271 1398 1028128+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M