Bug 6148
Summary: | fdisk -l syntax broken | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Joshua Jensen <joshua> |
Component: | util-linux | Assignee: | Cristian Gafton <gafton> |
Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 6.1 | ||
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Hardware: | i386 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2000-02-17 23:40:35 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
Joshua Jensen
1999-10-20 17:00:56 UTC
Tha man page is actually correct because the line fdisk -l [-u] device means the device specification is no longer optional when using the -l switch where as the -u is. In the older fdisk manpage it was formatted as fdisk -l [-u] [device] but anyway, i agree that the old way fdisk worked was better and I am assigning this report to the proper developer since fdisk -l does in fact now require a device name list. I need to use "fdisk -l" so, i have change it whit older version. Can you in future reinsert this function? thanks. fdisk -l used to cause probing for all types of storage devices (not only fixed hard disks), with results that were not always obvious (ie an invalid jaz drive, or trying to autoload some module to access a certain medium, etc) for fdisk -l you are better off using /proc/paritions (and going after fdisk -l <device> if you need more info) |