Felix Miata <mrmazda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >>>>> 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? > >> Then the answer to your question is, "Yes, it is expected and intended." > > Why? Because "fdisk -l lists the partition tables for all devices listed in /proc/partitions", as it says in the manual page. Your complaint is not really about the behavior of fdisk, but about the contents of /proc/partitions, which is maintained by some other group. >> Are you saying that you find this undesirable? > > Based on my understanding of the meaning of partition, yes. From the man page: > > fdisk is a dialog-driven program for creation and manipulation of > partition tables. > > sr0 and fd0 don't have partition tables. Are sr0 and fd0 not always invalid > targets for fdisk? If yes, what reason is there for /proc/partitions to > contain them? Actually, you *can* write a partition table to fd0, though people rarely bother to. It makes more sense if fd0 is an LS-120 (120 MiB) device, which I had on one computer. Dale -- 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
