On Dec 11 18:38, Christian Franke wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Dec 10 22:37, Christian Franke wrote: > >>Fergus Daly wrote: > >>>If util-linux is installed then > >>>$ /usr/sbin/fdisk > >>>returns a list of options as expected; but choosing one of them > >>>$ /usr/sbin/fdisk -l > >>>is mute. > >>>In the past this has returned filesystem summaries as expected. > >>>Windows 7, all up to date. > >>>Anybody else? > >>Could reproduce this. > >> > >>The option -l still works if a device is specified: > >> > >># fdisk -l /dev/sdX > >>... > >>Disk /dev/sda: 1.8 TiB, ... > >> > >>Is this probably because the format of /proc/partitions has changed due to > >>the new (& useful!) win-mounts column? > >The win-mount column is empty for disk entries, only filled for > >partitions. In theory that shouldn't bother fdisk which only looks > >for disk entries. Or, does it? > > > > > > It doesn't. > > A quick look in the source shows that the function sysfs_devname_to_devno() > now only checks the path /sys/block/sdX/dev if the device name does not > start with /dev/. I presume upstream has removed a fallback to /dev/sdX > because this is no longer required on Linux.
Hey, I'm off the hook on that one, cool! :) Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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