* fdisk lacks msdos partition support in gpt mode
@ 2013-10-24 16:58 Olaf Hering
2013-10-26 7:46 ` Karel Zak
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From: Olaf Hering @ 2013-10-24 16:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: util-linux
The guys to decided to use gpt labels even on legacy systems. That
happens to work. But when it breaks its now difficult to see whats
actually on disk. Now that fdisk from util-linux 2.23.2 has gpt support
its unable to print the msdos partition table.
It would be nice if fdisk gets some do-it-anyway flag to ignore gpt for
a moment and at least dump such content.
Thanks.
Olaf
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* Re: fdisk lacks msdos partition support in gpt mode
2013-10-24 16:58 fdisk lacks msdos partition support in gpt mode Olaf Hering
@ 2013-10-26 7:46 ` Karel Zak
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From: Karel Zak @ 2013-10-26 7:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Olaf Hering; +Cc: util-linux
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 06:58:10PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
>
> The guys to decided to use gpt labels even on legacy systems. That
> happens to work. But when it breaks its now difficult to see whats
> actually on disk. Now that fdisk from util-linux 2.23.2 has gpt support
> its unable to print the msdos partition table.
>
> It would be nice if fdisk gets some do-it-anyway flag to ignore gpt for
> a moment and at least dump such content.
fdisk -t dos <device>
to force fdisk to use MBR driver only.
Karel
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Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
http://karelzak.blogspot.com
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