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[bug-fdisk] Work in progress...


From: Christian
Subject: [bug-fdisk] Work in progress...
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:24:21 +0200
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Hi! :)

I making fdisk work with toast, pizza and files or devices without partition table, wow! please
while I continue let me know you like the way fdisk work:

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   cash-6.9# dd if=/dev/zero of=DISK ...

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   cash-6.9# ./fdisk DISK
   GNU Fdisk 1.0
   Copyright (C) 1998 - 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public
   License.

   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
   GNU General Public License for more details.

   Error: /PATH/DISK: unrecognised disk label
   Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or
   OSF disklabel

   Building a new DOS disklabel. Changes will remain in memory only,
   until you decide to write them. After that, of course, the previous
   content won't be recoverable.

   Using /PATH/DISK
   Command (m for help): q

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   cash-6.9# ./fdisk -G DISK
   GNU Fdisk 1.0
   Copyright (C) 1998 - 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public
   License.

   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
   GNU General Public License for more details.

   Error: /PATH/DISK: unrecognised disk label
   Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or
   OSF disklabel.
   You must create a disk label first!

   What type of disk label would you create (q to quit)?
   [ amiga bsd dvh gpt mac msdos pc98 sun loop ] msdos
   Using /PATH/DISK
   Command (m for help): q

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For now this is the situation, I must make fdisk not print `Error: DISK: unrecognised disk label',
probably is an exception that must be catched... other things?

Thank's
Christian.






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