[ydl-gen] No information diplayed on fdisk -l

[Derick Centeno]

Hi Naren:

I'm also using YDL 5 on a Mac.  If you do:

$man fdisk

You will see the following:

fdisk  doesn’t  understand  GUID  Partition  Table  (GPT) and it is not
       designed for large partitions. In particular case use more
advanced GNU
       parted(8).

Your hard-drive at 160G cannot be properly read by fdisk.  You should
instead use a program called parted.
Here is the quickest way to invoke parted:

[aguila at arakus ~]$ su -
Password:
[root at arakus ~]# parted
GNU Parted 1.8.1
Using /dev/hda
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) print

Model: FUJITSU MHT2080AH (ide)
Disk /dev/hda: 80.0GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: mac

Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name                  Flags
 1      0.51kB  32.8kB  32.3kB               Apple
 2      32.8kB  1081kB  1049kB  hfs          untitled              boot
 5      1081kB  106MB   105MB   ext3         untitled
 3      134MB   35.7GB  35.6GB  hfs+         Apple_HFS_Untitled_2
 4      35.7GB  40.0GB  4300MB  hfs+         eDrive
 6      40.0GB  77.9GB  37.9GB  ext3         untitled
 7      77.9GB  80.0GB  2089MB  linux-swap   swap                  swap

(parted) q
Information: Don't forget to update /etc/fstab, if necessary.

[root at arakus ~]#

If you want to learn more regarding parted you can do:

$man parted

or 

$info parted

You may also find this reference site helpful:

http://www.tldp.org/

Good Luck...

On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 14:26 +0100, Naren chandru wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am new to YDL linux. I have installed ydl-5.0 in my
> mac machine after that I typed fdisk -l, but no disk
> informations are displayed. It displayes only below
> info
> 
> Disk /dev/hda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> 
> I could not see the disk partition info. Is it a bug
> in ydl-5.0?
> 
> Regards,
> Naren.
> 
> 
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