On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 09:44:05PM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
>
> 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?
EFI standard:
"The start of the GPT Partition Entry Array is located at the LBA
indicated by the Partition Entry LBA field."
> 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?
Well, "LBA" is usually used as unit (especially in storage slang).
Don't think about it as about abbreviation :-)
IMHO the fdisk message "Partitions entries LBA: %ju" is fine, it's
better to follow commonly terminology.
Karel
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