Dale R. Worley composed on 2015-02-07 21:37 (UTC-0500): > Felix Miata wrote: >> fdisk -l is causing the floppy drive to get hit, which reflects the 4 kernel >> messages onto the tty running fdisk. Is this expected or intended? > I see in the manual page: > > -l List the partition tables for the specified devices and then > exit. If no devices are given, those mentioned in /proc/parti- > tions (if that exists) are used. > Is the floppy listed in /proc/partitions? Yes, as is the OM drive: 3.18.3-1-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jan 19 12:38:51 UTC 2015 (c3e148f) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux (openSUSE Tumbleweed) major minor #blocks name 8 0 1953514584 sda 8 1 409600 sda1 8 2 2048000 sda2 8 3 409600 sda3 8 4 1 sda4 8 5 4245488 sda5 8 6 49151984 sda6 8 7 258032 sda7 8 8 10239984 sda8 8 9 10239984 sda9 8 10 10239984 sda10 8 11 10239984 sda11 8 12 5119984 sda12 8 13 4095984 sda13 8 14 2047984 sda14 8 15 24575984 sda15 259 0 77823984 sda16 259 1 240639984 sda17 259 2 972799984 sda18 259 3 450544 sda19 259 4 49151984 sda20 2 0 4 fd0 11 0 1048575 sr0 Knoppix 7.4's 3.16.3 and openSUSE 13.2's 3.16.7 have fd0 in /proc/partitions too. openSUSE 13.1's 3.12.36 lists sr0, but not fd0. Tumbleweed's hwinfo --[cdrom|disk|ide|partition|redasd|scsi] (v21.11) all produce fd0 messages on vttys too. hwinfo --floppy produces 6 messages instead of 4, so I suspect this is about something exclusive to openSUSE other than util-linux, but what? Kernel? Systemd logging? Other? All above are on a Dell Optiplex 760 SFF (ICH10D) with BIOS A12, 4 versions older than latest available (A16; too big to fit on a 1.44M floppy). http://www.dell.com/us/dfb/p/optiplex-760/pd A similar age Biostar (NM10/ICH7) with Tumbleweed's 3.18.3 and 13.2's 3.16.7 lists fd0, sr0 & sr1, but Tumbleweed's fdisk (2.25.1) and 13.2's fdisk (2.25.1) don't result in the floppy hits trailing output. 13.1's 3.16.7 has sr0 & sr0 in /proc/partitions, but not fd0, same as Rawhide's 3.19.rc7. An older Optiplex GX280 SFF (ICH6; BIOS A04) with floppy and Tumbleweed's 3.18.1 and 13.2's 3.16.7 list both sr0 and fd0 in /proc/partitions, but drop no fd0 messages on the ttys from fdisk -l or hwinfo. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
