Package: util-linux Version: 2.13.1.1-1 Severity: minor Hi,
There seems to be no way to get rid of the warning message: Warning: extended partition does not start at a cylinder boundary. DOS and Linux will interpret the contents differently. sent to stderr. Neither -L nor -q make it go away. I have a cron script dumping the partiton tables for backup purposes and the message is annoying. Here's a sample in-context (from another system): -----------------<snip>------------- # sfdisk -l -q -L /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 121601 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track Warning: extended partition does not start at a cylinder boundary. DOS and Linux will interpret the contents differently. Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0 Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 0+ 121600 121601- 976760001 5 Extended /dev/sdb2 0 - 0 0 0 Empty /dev/sdb3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty /dev/sdb4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty /dev/sdb5 0+ 121600 121601- 976759969+ 8e Linux LVM -----------------<snip>------------- Here's a sample from this system: -----------------<snip>------------- # sfdisk -l -L -q /dev/hda Disk /dev/hda: 4092 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors/track Warning: extended partition does not start at a cylinder boundary. DOS and Linux will interpret the contents differently. Warning: The partition table looks like it was made for C/H/S=*/255/63 (instead of 4092/16/63). For this listing I'll assume that geometry. Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0 Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 0+ 30 31- 248976 83 Linux /dev/hda2 31 255 225 1807312+ 5 Extended /dev/hda3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty /dev/hda4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty /dev/hda5 31+ 255 225- 1807281 8e Linux LVM -----------------<snip>------------- -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.3 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages util-linux depends on: ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libncurses5 5.7+20081213-1 shared libraries for terminal hand ii libselinux1 2.0.65-5 SELinux shared libraries ii libslang2 2.1.3-3 The S-Lang programming library - r ii libuuid1 1.41.3-1 universally unique id library ii lsb-base 3.2-20 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii tzdata 2009l-0lenny1 time zone and daylight-saving time ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime util-linux recommends no packages. Versions of packages util-linux suggests: ii console-tools 1:0.2.3dbs-65.1 Linux console and font utilities pn dosfstools <none> (no description available) pn util-linux-locales <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
