fdisk -l is mute

Christian Franke Christian.Franke@t-online.de
Wed Dec 10 21:38:00 GMT 2014


Fergus Daly wrote:
> If util-linux is installed then
> $ /usr/sbin/fdisk
> returns a list of options as expected; but choosing one of them
> $ /usr/sbin/fdisk -l
> is mute.
> In the past this has returned filesystem summaries as expected.
> Windows 7, all up to date.
> Anybody else?

Could reproduce this.

The option -l still works if a device is specified:

# fdisk -l /dev/sdX
...
Disk /dev/sda: 1.8 TiB, ...

Is this probably because the format of /proc/partitions has changed due 
to the new (& useful!) win-mounts column?

Christian


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