Re: fdisk lacks msdos partition support in gpt mode

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On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 06:58:10PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> 
> The guys to decided to use gpt labels even on legacy systems. That
> happens to work. But when it breaks its now difficult to see whats
> actually on disk. Now that fdisk from util-linux 2.23.2 has gpt support
> its unable to print the msdos partition table.
> 
> It would be nice if fdisk gets some do-it-anyway flag to ignore gpt for
> a moment and at least dump such content.

   fdisk -t dos <device>

to force fdisk to use MBR driver only.

    Karel


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