bin/20633: fdisk(8) doesn't handle LBA correctly

Bruce Cran bruce at cran.org.uk
Sun Sep 12 11:00:19 UTC 2010


The following reply was made to PR bin/20633; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bruce Cran <bruce at cran.org.uk>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, sjr at home.com
Cc:  
Subject: Re: bin/20633: fdisk(8) doesn't handle LBA correctly
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 11:50:34 +0100

 fdisk is more or less obsolete now that gpart has been introduced that
 can handle all the modern partition tables as well as MBR. We should
 probably check that gpart writes the correct magic values too, though.
 
 -- 
 Bruce Cran


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