what precisely is partition_entry_lba?

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Hi,

In libfdisk/src/gpt.c the function gpt_list_disklabel() prints
a GPT header, and one of the things it prints says:

_("Partitions entries LBA: %ju"), h->partition_entry_lba

In the struct this variable is described as:

uint64_t    partition_entry_lba; /* stat LBA of the partition entry array */

This doesn't make sense to me.  Shouldn't this say something
like "Starting block of the array of partition entries" instead?

All this use of 'lba' is confusing to me, as it stands for
"logical block addressing", and what seems to be meant
is simply "logical block" or "logical block number".  No?

Benno

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