Bug 194493

Summary: "sfdisk -l" doesn't ignore partitions
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Bastien Nocera <bnocera>
Component: util-linuxAssignee: Karel Zak <kzak>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Ben Levenson <benl>
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util-linux-sfdisk-dont-open-partitions.patch none

Description Bastien Nocera 2006-06-08 15:00:15 UTC 
util-linux-2.12a-16.EL4.16

But "fdisk -l" ignores them.

$ fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 36.4 GB, 36420075008 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4427 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1          13      104391   83  Linux
/dev/sda2              14         650     5116702+  83  Linux
/dev/sda3             651         777     1020127+  82  Linux swap
/dev/sda4             778        4427    29318625    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5             778        4427    29318593+  83  Linux

$ sfdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 4427 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

   Device Boot Start     End   #cyls    #blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *      0+     12      13-    104391   83  Linux
/dev/sda2         13     649     637    5116702+  83  Linux
/dev/sda3        650     776     127    1020127+  82  Linux swap
/dev/sda4        777    4426    3650   29318625    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5        777+   4426    3650-  29318593+  83  Linux
Warning: start=63 - this looks like a partition rather than
the entire disk. Using fdisk on it is probably meaningless.
[Use the --force option if you really want this]

Patch attached fixes the above error message.
Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2006-06-08 15:00:15 UTC 
Created attachment 130753 [details]
util-linux-sfdisk-dont-open-partitions.patch
Comment 2 Karel Zak 2006-06-08 19:30:10 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 188981 ***