From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: from out3-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.27]:46819 "EHLO out3-smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754519AbaIVToG (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Sep 2014 15:44:06 -0400 Received: from compute5.internal (compute5.nyi.internal [10.202.2.45]) by gateway2.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DE3620970 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2014 15:44:05 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <1411415045.2373997.170469709.45708397@webmail.messagingengine.com> From: Benno Schulenberg To: "Util-Linux" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Subject: what precisely is partition_entry_lba? Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 21:44:05 +0200 Sender: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi, In libfdisk/src/gpt.c the function gpt_list_disklabel() prints a GPT header, and one of the things it prints says: _("Partitions entries LBA: %ju"), h->partition_entry_lba In the struct this variable is described as: uint64_t partition_entry_lba; /* stat LBA of the partition entry array */ This doesn't make sense to me. Shouldn't this say something like "Starting block of the array of partition entries" instead? All this use of 'lba' is confusing to me, as it stands for "logical block addressing", and what seems to be meant is simply "logical block" or "logical block number". No? Benno -- http://www.fastmail.fm - The way an email service should be