-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 While helping a user troubleshoot an issue, I noticed fdisk fails to produce any output when run on an MBR that contains an extended partition that starts beyond the end of the disk. The following is a sample of the user's MBR: 0000000: eb63 9010 8ed0 bc00 b0b8 0000 8ed8 8ec0 .c.............. 0000010: fbbe 007c bf00 06b9 0002 f3a4 ea21 0600 ...|.........!.. 0000020: 00be be07 3804 750b 83c6 1081 fefe 0775 ....8.u........u 0000030: f3eb 16b4 02b0 01bb 007c b280 8a74 018b .........|...t.. 0000040: 4c02 cd13 ea00 7c00 00eb fe00 0000 0000 L.....|......... 0000050: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0080 0100 0000 ................ 0000060: 0000 0000 fffa 9090 f6c2 8074 05f6 c270 ...........t...p 0000070: 7402 b280 ea79 7c00 0031 c08e d88e d0bc t....y|..1...... 0000080: 0020 fba0 647c 3cff 7402 88c2 52bb 1704 . ..d|<.t...R... 0000090: 8027 0374 06be 887d e817 01be 057c b441 .'.t...}.....|.A 00000a0: bbaa 55cd 135a 5272 3d81 fb55 aa75 3783 ..U..ZRr=..U.u7. 00000b0: e101 7432 31c0 8944 0440 8844 ff89 4402 ..t21..D.@.D..D. 00000c0: c704 1000 668b 1e5c 7c66 895c 0866 8b1e ....f..\|f.\.f.. 00000d0: 607c 6689 5c0c c744 0600 70b4 42cd 1372 `|f.\..D..p.B..r 00000e0: 05bb 0070 eb76 b408 cd13 730d f6c2 800f ...p.v....s..... 00000f0: 84d0 00be 937d e982 0066 0fb6 c688 64ff .....}...f....d. 0000100: 4066 8944 040f b6d1 c1e2 0288 e888 f440 @f.D...........@ 0000110: 8944 080f b6c2 c0e8 0266 8904 66a1 607c .D.......f..f.`| 0000120: 6609 c075 4e66 a15c 7c66 31d2 66f7 3488 f..uNf.\|f1.f.4. 0000130: d131 d266 f774 043b 4408 7d37 fec1 88c5 .1.f.t.;D.}7.... 0000140: 30c0 c1e8 0208 c188 d05a 88c6 bb00 708e 0........Z....p. 0000150: c331 dbb8 0102 cd13 721e 8cc3 601e b900 .1......r...`... 0000160: 018e db31 f6bf 0080 8ec6 fcf3 a51f 61ff ...1..........a. 0000170: 265a 7cbe 8e7d eb03 be9d 7de8 3400 bea2 &Z|..}....}.4... 0000180: 7de8 2e00 cd18 ebfe 4752 5542 2000 4765 }.......GRUB .Ge 0000190: 6f6d 0048 6172 6420 4469 736b 0052 6561 om.Hard Disk.Rea 00001a0: 6400 2045 7272 6f72 0d0a 00bb 0100 b40e d. Error........ 00001b0: cd10 ac3c 0075 f4c3 f0a9 0200 0000 0004 ...<.u.......... 00001c0: 0500 83fe ffff 0001 0000 00f9 941b 00fe ................ 00001d0: ffff 05fe ffff fefa 941b 02f8 1f00 0000 ................ 00001e0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ................ 00001f0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 55aa ..............U. It should at least print the usual base disk size/geometry and primary partition table entries, with an error indicating that the extended partitions can not be read. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJQt8ebAAoJEJrBOlT6nu754MMH/2kHm5HxD5FHLC5La0NgCYVC //cuqIc4V4xJ0Gw7m1eUGJKeq+7jznAqFDxwRb1SskiKhy5+xpIlV8pS9BpI6xL/ N/o1QG/GGDp6u8IETJyg/4Wfx51xo2qjASpaaCKVq3LBNtxKNO/F2iK3X8AMBMVW ExPuUfGQc12JaZhSx/yhWe7Ed39f3+1UK4DethPNwiNDEWPh8atNzoiopI3EIxha ZQwIL7JPToWjGaIYwirgGiIt2fIXRlqAg/YT+c4Qej4DDaLgMpXiNapPz5uijbGC hefxLYl6XLGO3dOVRZFVLXyESQnYC4+dMjLpU6iGovm1G3J183FZL48b/j0LzIQ= =6ep4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
