Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 July 2007, Karel Zak wrote:
>> On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 01:59:32AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>>> the fdisk code has a bunch of defined(__alpha__) checks which seems to
>>> make it not possible to work on OSF partitioned disks unless you're
>>> running on an alpha machine ... no idea the amount of work needed to get
>>> this working for everyone, so perhaps this should just be tossed into the
>>> TODO ?
>> I see the __alpha__ in fdiskbsdlabel.c only. I really not sure how
>> useful is it on an alpha machine. If anyone affected, please, cry
>> publicly...
>
> attached is the first ~9k from a disk formatted with OSF ... on an alpha,
> `fdisk` works on it (you can view the table) but everywhere else it shows up
> as no valid partition
>
It might be interesting to check into GNU fdisk, which is an fdisk-like
wrapper around libparted.
-hpa
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in
the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
