fdisk -l is mute

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Dec 10 22:37, Christian Franke wrote:
> 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?

The win-mount column is empty for disk entries, only filled for
partitions.  In theory that shouldn't bother fdisk which only looks
for disk entries.  Or, does it?


Corinna

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