[BusyBox] fdisk with entries not in disk order pb.

Vladimir N. Oleynik dzo at simtreas.ru
Fri May 14 08:46:24 UTC 2004


magicfox,

> I used recently fdisk to remember which extra partition number to mount 
> on busybox. The mount is not a pb. but when entries are not in disk 
> order, the informations displayed seems to be wrong.
> 
> Busybox fdisk:
> -------------
> # fdisk -l /dev/hda
> Warning: ignoring extra data in partition table 5
> Warning: ignoring extra data in partition table 5
> Warning: ignoring extra data in partition table 6
> Warning: invalid flag 0x1ac9 of partition table 5 will be corrected by 
> w(rite)
> Warning: invalid flag 0x0026 of partition table 6 will be corrected by 
> w(rite)
> 
> Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40027029504 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4866 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> 
>    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1   *           1        1992    16000708+  83  Linux
> /dev/hda2            1993        4866    23085405    5  Extended
> /dev/hda5   ?       85074      164322   636558932   af  Unknown
> /dev/hda6   ?      105121      250671  1169129465   ff  Unknown

I haven`t problem with large disk with busybox-1.0pre7.
Current busybox fdisk works invalid with large disk without
support large files.
I don`t like last Erik`s fdisk changes.
Erik don`t say, why applied this changes again and again. :(


--w
vodz



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