Hi! On Thu, 06 Aug 2015, Matt Turner wrote: > I'm not able to figure out how to make a BSD disklabel in fdisk since v2.23. > > Gentoo's installation guide describes the process of partitioning a > disk for SRM/Alpha [1]. How should one do this now? > > With my distro's util-linux-2.25 I don't see any option that resembles > BSD disklabels -- I see only > > Create a new label > g create a new empty GPT partition table > G create a new empty SGI (IRIX) partition table > o create a new empty DOS partition table > s create a new empty Sun partition table > > What am I missing? > > [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:Alpha/Installation/Disks#Deleting_all_slices It seems like disklabel _editing_ still works: monolith ~ # fdisk /dev/sda Welcome to fdisk (util-linux 2.26.2). [...] Disk /dev/sda: 17 GiB, 18209320960 bytes, 35565080 sectors Geometry: 64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 17365 cylinders Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: bsd partitions: 3 Slice Start End Sectors Size Type Fsize Bsize Cpg a 4096 1959935 1955840 955M swap 0 0 0 b 1959936 35563519 33603584 16G ext2 0 0 0 c 0 35563519 35563520 17G unused 0 0 0 Maybe generating a BSD disklabel is just not wired up? Regards, Tobias -- Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration. -- Stan Kelly-Bootle -- 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
