From: Craig <util-linux_contact@magister.com.au>
To: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: ***Urgent***! Fdisk: GPT support utterly breaks hybrid MBR; *must* have disable option! :(
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2013 22:23:13 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.03.1310092211290.7406@aslan.magister.com.au> (raw)
Greetings,
Sorry if this isn't the place, but curiously, I could find no
bug-reporting info in the documentation, and definitely I consider this
one a bug! Adding experimental GPT support to fdisk has completely broken
its ability to read the MBR for a hybrid partitioning scheme. To be
blunt, I don't see the point in fdisk GPT support in any case; gdisk does
a *vastly* better job, and appears to be mature. At the least however,
there needs urgently to be a means by which GPT can be disabled
(command-line switch?) or by which fdisk can be forced to read an existing
MBR under _any_ circumstances.
On a related note, fdisk cannot differentiate between lower and upper-case
command input (e.g., `G' vs. `g' is rather pointless as things stand).
Cheerio,
Craig
next reply other threads:[~2013-10-09 12:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-09 11:23 Craig [this message]
2013-10-09 14:16 ` ***Urgent***! Fdisk: GPT support utterly breaks hybrid MBR; *must* have disable option! :( Karel Zak
2013-10-10 0:39 ` Craig
2013-10-10 11:10 ` Karel Zak
2013-10-11 3:45 ` Craig
2013-10-11 9:04 ` Karel Zak
2013-10-11 21:34 ` Craig
2013-11-24 18:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
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