Disk geometry is independent on the presence of valid partition table.
So parted could print geometry information if called with chs or cyl
as default unit.
* parted/parted.c (do_print): print disk geometry if the disk
does not contain valid partition table and default unit is cyl
or chs.
---
parted/parted.c | 8 ++++++--
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/parted/parted.c b/parted/parted.c
index 1de502b..5a6f379 100644
--- a/parted/parted.c
+++ b/parted/parted.c
@@ -1427,8 +1427,12 @@ do_print (PedDevice** dev)
wchar_t* table_rendered;
disk = ped_disk_new (*dev);
- if (!disk)
- goto error;
+ if (!disk) {
+ if (ped_unit_get_default () == PED_UNIT_CHS
+ || ped_unit_get_default () == PED_UNIT_CYLINDER)
+ _print_disk_geometry (*dev);
+ goto error;
+ }
if (ped_disk_is_flag_available(disk, PED_DISK_CYLINDER_ALIGNMENT))
if (!ped_disk_set_flag(disk, PED_DISK_CYLINDER_ALIGNMENT,
--
1.6.4.2
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