From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
To: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Cc: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: fdisk lacks msdos partition support in gpt mode
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 09:46:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131026074646.GB2119@x2.net.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131024165810.GA26722@aepfle.de>
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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2013-10-24 16:58 fdisk lacks msdos partition support in gpt mode Olaf Hering
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