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A question related to sfdisk |
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Mon, 1 Mar 2004 18:49:03 -0700 |
Hi,
I am trying to write a script to gather disk and partition information from a
lot of Linux systems in our company. I like to use sfdisk utility with -s and
-l options which not only show normal SCSI/IDE disk drives but logical drives
created based on some RAID controllers. The fdisk utility seems not as powerful
as sfdisk. However, I encountered a problem when using sfdisk. I hope someone
can help me fix/explain it.
On a couple of new RedHat Enterprise Linux version 3 installation with the
following configuration:
Kernel version: 2.4.21-4.EL
util-linux rpm version: 2.11y-31.1
# sfdisk -v
sfdisk version 3.07 (address@hidden, 990908)
I have a single IDE disk drive on this sytem.
When I run sfdisk, I got the following result:
# sfdisk -s (Notes: I am expecting only /dev/hda: 22075200 and total: ... to
show up)
/dev/hda: 22075200
/dev/hda1: 102280
/dev/hda2: 5120136
/dev/hda3: 1048824
/dev/hda4: 1
/dev/hda5: 15803896
# sfdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 43800 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors/track
Units = cylinders of 516096 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 0+ 202 203- 102280+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 203 10361 10159 5120136 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 10362 12442 2081 1048824 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda4 12443 43799 31357 15803928 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 12443+ 43799 31357- 15803896+ 83 Linux
Warning: start=63 - this looks like a partition rather than
the entire disk. Using fdisk on it is probably meaningless.
[Use the --force option if you really want this]
Why did this happen and how to fix it?
Thank you very much for your help!
Xiaoqin Qiu
Agilent Technologies, Inc.
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