On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 11:09:21AM +0100, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > Quoting Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Certainly, fdisk from util-linux doesn't know about mac disks, and > > I thought the same was true for cfdisk and sfdisk. Many years ago > > there was mac-fdisk, I think also known as pdisk, but nowadays the > > common tool for partitioning mac disks is probably parted. > > Yes. See now that 'fdisk' is a softlink to 'mac-fdisk'... >
Sorry for not replying earlier, cutting the Cc: list on lkml is not always conducive to quick replies. So, you were using a valid tool, but what you put in your original mail shows garbage - something like apple_partition_ma[mamama... followed later by some garbage which could admittedly have been UTF-8 getting trashed in the mail. I'm on my ibook at the moment, which has an old debian mac-fdisk on another partition. If I chroot to that and look at the disk I see things like /dev/hda # type name length base ( size ) system /dev/hda1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 ( 31.5k) Partition map /dev/hda2 Apple_Bootstrap untitled 1954 @ 64 (977.0k) NewWorld bootblock and so forth. Notice that everything there is in legible ascii and can be read with sensible values. If what you actually see is similar, then it's just a problem in the mail. But if it isn't, somehow the data on the disk (or the data being read from it) is corrupt. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/