On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 04:25:32PM +0200, Ruediger Meier wrote:
> On Monday 26 May 2014, Petr Uzel wrote:
> > Sfdisk prints out a warning about extended partition not
> > starting at a cylinder boundary. Since this is irrelevant
> > for linux, the -L option should suppress this warning.
>
> I would really like to have -L enabled by default on linux. Project name
> is util-LINUX and if we even run it on linux, why being still bothered
> per default?
sfdisk code sucks and it's necessary to rewrite it to use libfdisk
(sfdisk is the last remaining fdisk), I'd like to do this change in
v2.26.
> BTW we have some more warnings of this kind in libfdisk/src/dos.c
> where we don't have option -L:
>
> /* Same physical / logical beginning? */
> if (cxt->geom.cylinders <= 1024
> && (pbc != lbc || pbh != lbh || pbs != lbs)) {
> fdisk_warnx(cxt, _("Partition %zu: different physical/logical "
> "beginnings (non-Linux?): "
> "phys=(%d, %d, %d), logical=(%d, %d, %d)"),
> partition + 1,
> pbc, pbh, pbs,
> lbc, lbh, lbs);
> }
this code is for DOS compatible mode which is disabled by default
Karel
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