From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
To: Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com>
Cc: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: fdisk expert print lists wrong start sector for logical partitions
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 12:57:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131114115711.GE13330@x2.net.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5283A380.6020909@ubuntu.com>
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 11:06:24AM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote:
> The expert print function shows all logical partitions as having the
> same start sector as the extended partition that contains them.
Normal mode:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 2048 22527 10240 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 22528 1228799 603136 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 24576 229375 102400 83 Linux
/dev/sdb6 231424 1228799 498688 83 Linux
Expert mode:
Nr AF Hd Sec Cyl Hd Sec Cyl Start Size Id
1 00 32 33 0 102 37 1 2048 20480 83
2 00 102 38 1 124 48 76 22528 1206272 05
3 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
4 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
5 00 135 7 1 70 56 14 2048 204800 83
6 00 103 26 14 124 48 76 2048 997376 83
It's correct, although probably it seems strange at a first glance.
It dumps MBR and EBR tables, nothing else. It means that you can
see all the values as stored on the device without any calculation.
I agree that this info is not too useful. Maybe we can change this old
thing and describe the whole chain of the MBR->EBR->EBR... in more
readable and more precise way. Not sure, but I guess nobody cares
about this output backward compatibility.
Karel
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Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
http://karelzak.blogspot.com
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2013-11-13 16:06 fdisk expert print lists wrong start sector for logical partitions Phillip Susi
2013-11-14 11:57 ` Karel Zak [this message]
2013-11-14 16:24 ` Phillip Susi
2013-11-14 22:21 ` Karel Zak
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