From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: from magister.com.au ([123.243.98.134]:33988 "EHLO magister.com.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756320Ab3JIMs7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Oct 2013 08:48:59 -0400 Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2013 22:23:13 +1100 (EST) From: Craig To: util-linux@vger.kernel.org Subject: ***Urgent***! Fdisk: GPT support utterly breaks hybrid MBR; *must* have disable option! :( Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Sender: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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