Package: util-linux
Version: 2.12-10
In version 2.11n-7, fdisk -l will report a list of partitions on all disks.
In version 2.12-10, fdisk -l will report nothing unless a specific disk is
given.
This may have been a concious choice, but I could not find anything about that.
And the man pages are consistent with the way it did work.
-Terry
manpage for fdisk
-l List the partition tables for the specified devices and then
exit. If no devices are given, those mentioned in /proc/parti-
tions (if that exists) are used.
boccaccio:~# dpkg -l util-linux
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii util-linux 2.12-10 Miscellaneous system utilities
boccaccio:~# fdisk -l /dev/hda
Disk /dev/hda: 30.7 GB, 30750031872 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3738 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1824 14651248+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 3615 3738 996030 82 Linux swap
boccaccio:~# fdisk -l
boccaccio:~#
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cellini:~# dpkg -l util-linux
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii util-linux 2.11n-7 Miscellaneous system utilities.
cellini:~# fdisk -l /dev/hda
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 7476 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 2432 19535008+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 2433 2681 2000092+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda3 2682 7476 38515837+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 2682 7476 38515806 83 Linux
cellini:~# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 7476 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 2432 19535008+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 2433 2681 2000092+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda3 2682 7476 38515837+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 2682 7476 38515806 83 Linux
cellini:~#
Linux boccaccio 2.4.27-2-686 #1 Thu Jan 20 11:10:41 JST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2005-05-01 18:18 /lib/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.3.2.so
