On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 11:31:24AM +0100, Karel Zak wrote:
> > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> > /dev/sda1 2048 1050623 524288 83 Linux
> > /dev/sda2 1050624 105908223 52428800 0 Empty
>
> Congratulation, you found very old fdisk bug as well as GNU Parted bug :-)
>
> The problem is that the partition has no set partition type, and
> fdisk in some situations interprets such partition as unused.
Aaah, I see.
If you wonder why I did that by the way, it's good to set aside portion
of an SSD and never use it. This leaves room for the garbage collector.
> So it lists the partition (print command), but the "add new
> partition" command interprets this partition as unused.
Understood.
> This is definitely bug too, because Linux does not care about
> partition type and kernel is able to use this partition:
It is indeed.
> Note, don't use -S and -H, fdisk does not care about CHS by default
> (you have to enable obsolete DOS mode ('c' command)).
Thanks for that. It was an old command I had to make sure I would get
big 64K block alignment for my SSD.
> I'm going to make fdisk more robust and prepare also a patch for GNU
> parted.
Thanks for your reply and the fixes.
Marc
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