Bug 126996
| Summary: | sfdisk -s won't list the sizes of all disks | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 | Reporter: | Jean Marc BOUCHER <jean-marc.boucher> |
| Component: | util-linux | Assignee: | Elliot Lee <sopwith> |
| Status: | CLOSED WORKSFORME | QA Contact: | Ben Levenson <benl> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 3.0 | ||
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| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2004-12-10 15:41:23 UTC | Type: | --- |
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The behaviour has changed somewhat since RHEL 2.1AS. Under RHEL 3, I would expect the individual partitions to be listed, and no 'total' line to be printed. The curious thing is that 'sfdisk -s' on RHEL3 seems to have only printed the /dev/sda* partitions instead of printing the /dev/sd[bcde]* partitions as well - was that in fact the case, or did you just truncate the output? no output truncated !!!
the first output is on a server with one drive only (sda) and the
second is on another server with five drives (sda, sdb, sdc, sdd, sde)
if you read the man page of sfdisk it says:
List Sizes
sfdisk -s partition gives the size of partition in blocks. This
may be useful in connection with programs like
mkswap or so. Here partition is usually something like
/dev/hda1 or /dev/sdb12, but may also be an entire disk,
like /dev/xda.
% sfdisk -s /dev/hda9
81599
%
If the partition argument is omitted, sfdisk will list the
sizes of all disks, and the total:
% sfdisk -s
/dev/hda: 208896
/dev/hdb: 1025136
/dev/hdc: 1031063
/dev/sda: 8877895
/dev/sdb: 1758927
total: 12901917 blocks
%
so why the behaviour of sfdisk -s as changed on RH ES 3 ?
regards
jmb
just a comment:
we have bought a redhat enterprise server support and not a "fedora
one" ;-) .
the delay are very long for a professionnal support answer !!! if you
want professionnal IT keep on using your enterprise solutions, you'd
better answer more quickly ...
Hey, just noticed this old bug. Sorry for the very long delay. bugzilla is not a support forum - please contact Red Hat support through the standard channels. The behaviour changed in RHEL3 to handle another more serious bug, but the man pages weren't updated to match. In the development tree, another fix is just going in that returns to the original behaviour while dealing with the other bug. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) Description of problem: sfdisk -s won't list the sizes of all disks it's on IBM xSeries 235 with a ServeRaid scsi card (bios 7.00.14) [root@celprod1 root]# sfdisk -s /dev/sda: 143372288 /dev/sda1: 127984 /dev/sda2: 4192524 /dev/sda3: 1048131 /dev/sda4: 1 /dev/sda5: 1048099 /dev/sda6: 1048099 /dev/sda7: 2040223 /dev/sda8: 528034 /dev/sda9: 264001 /dev/sda10: 133072600 the same command run on a x335 with RH ES 2.1 return [root@linux6 root]# sfdisk -s /dev/sda: 71555072 /dev/sdb: 37748736 /dev/sdc: 37748736 /dev/sdd: 10485760 /dev/sde: 3145728 total: 160684032 blocks which is the good result according to man pages Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): util-linux-2.11y-31.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.sfdisk -s 2. 3. Additional info: