fdisk -l is mute

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Dec 11 18:38, Christian Franke wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >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?
> >
> >
> 
> It doesn't.
> 
> A quick look in the source shows that the function sysfs_devname_to_devno()
> now only checks the path /sys/block/sdX/dev if the device name does not
> start with /dev/. I presume upstream has removed a fallback to /dev/sdX
> because this is no longer required on Linux.

Hey, I'm off the hook on that one, cool! :)


Thanks,
Corinna

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