On 05/01/18 13:50, Phil Turmel wrote: > The output of fdisk is invalid on your system, see the warning it > printed. Use gdisk or parted instead. Don't use '*'. It used to be so simple - fdisk for MBR disks, gdisk et al for GPT. ashdown src # fdisk /dev/sda Welcome to fdisk (util-linux 2.26.2). Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them. Be careful before using the write command. Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sda: 2.7 TiB, 3000592982016 bytes, 5860533168 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disklabel type: gpt Disk identifier: 47915407-BA7E-4869-8D3E-3CB44F5FDA12 Device Start End Sectors Size Type /dev/sda1 2048 1050623 1048576 512M BIOS boot /dev/sda2 1312768 68421631 67108864 32G Linux swap /dev/sda3 68683776 270010367 201326592 96G Linux filesystem /dev/sda4 270272512 471599103 201326592 96G Linux filesystem /dev/sda5 471861248 5860533134 5388671887 2.5T Linux filesystem Command (m for help): q ashdown src # Modern fdisk now supports GPT. So yes, in this case the warning is correct, but we need to watch out that people will be using fdisk, and it's okay. Dunno when this happened, but I've only very recently noticed it. Cheers, Wol -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
