Bug 446648
| Summary: | Obsolete info in fdisk(8) man page | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | Steve Bonneville <sbonnevi> |
| Component: | util-linux | Assignee: | Karel Zak <kzak> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Ben Levenson <benl> |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 5.1 | CC: | syeghiay |
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2009-01-20 20:45:27 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release. Product Management has requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed products. This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update release. An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-0070.html |
Paragraphs 6-7 of the fdisk(8) man page currently reads: The device is usually one of the following: /dev/hda /dev/hdb /dev/sda /dev/sdb (/dev/hd[a-h] for IDE disks, /dev/sd[a-p] for SCSI disks, /dev/ed[a-d] for ESDI disks, /dev/xd[ab] for XT disks). A device name refers to the entire disk. The partition is a device name followed by a partition number. For example, /dev/hda1 is the first partition on the first IDE hard disk in the system. IDE disks can have up to 63 partitions, SCSI disks up to 15. See also /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt. The last line assumes, of course, that the kernel source is unpacked on the system; reasonable in 1998 but not today in RHEL. The "See also" here should probably point to /usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-*/Documentation/devices.txt. These paragraphs should also be looked at in the context of Fedora 8 (and probably 9) where the page is identical and therefore obsolete due to /dev/hd* being unified with /dev/sd* now. (I'd also bring up the "BUGS" section which calls fdisk a "buggy program that does fuzzy things, avoid it if you can", which was raised as a customer complaint some years ago but which I can't find the bug number on any more.) Reported by a GLS customer. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): h util-linux-2.13-0.45.el5_1.1 (RHEL 5.1) [also util-linux-ng-2.13.1-2.fc8 (Fedora 8)]