Re: fdisk, OSF, and non-alpha systems

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On Tuesday 10 July 2007, Karel Zak wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 01:59:32AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > the fdisk code has a bunch of defined(__alpha__) checks which seems to
> > make it not possible to work on OSF partitioned disks unless you're
> > running on an alpha machine ... no idea the amount of work needed to get
> > this working for everyone, so perhaps this should just be tossed into the
> > TODO ?
>
>  I see the __alpha__  in fdiskbsdlabel.c only. I really not sure how
>  useful is it on an alpha machine. If anyone affected, please, cry
>  publicly...

attached is the first ~9k from a disk formatted with OSF ... on an alpha, 
`fdisk` works on it (you can view the table) but everywhere else it shows up 
as no valid partition

HTH
-mike

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