From: worley@alum.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley)
To: Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net>
Cc: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: fdisk -l hits floppy drive
Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2015 21:37:39 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zj8pm8lo.fsf@hobgoblin.ariadne.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54D5126A.3020308@earthlink.net> (mrmazda@earthlink.net)
Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> writes:
> fdisk -l is causing the floppy drive to get hit, which reflects the 4 kernel
> messages onto the tty running fdisk. Is this expected or intended?
I see in the manual page:
-l List the partition tables for the specified devices and then
exit. If no devices are given, those mentioned in /proc/parti-
tions (if that exists) are used.
Is the floppy listed in /proc/partitions?
Dale
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-08 2:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-06 19:13 fdisk -l hits floppy drive Felix Miata
2015-02-08 2:37 ` Dale R. Worley [this message]
2015-02-08 7:52 ` Felix Miata
2015-02-09 10:36 ` Karel Zak
2015-02-17 2:30 ` Dale R. Worley
2015-02-17 8:32 ` Felix Miata
2015-02-18 3:29 ` Dale R. Worley
2015-02-09 14:45 ` Phillip Susi
2015-02-10 14:59 ` Felix Miata
2015-04-07 1:03 ` Phillip Susi
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=87zj8pm8lo.fsf@hobgoblin.ariadne.com \
--to=worley@alum.mit.edu \
--cc=mrmazda@earthlink.net \
--cc=util-linux@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).