[ydl-gen] ydl-5.0 fdisk /dev/sda

[Bill Mueller]

fdisk is more of an antiquated x86 command.

Use parted instead, slightly different but just as good.

/sbin/parted /dev/sda

-Bill

On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 05:40:05 +0100 (BST), Naren chandru <naren_lin at yahoo.co.in> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   I am a new user for YDL-5.0 and I have installed ydl-5.0 in my MAC
> machine. After installation I have typed "fdisk /dev/sda" command to  see
> the partition information. It does not given any information. I have
> pasted the output below
> 
>   ----------------------------------------------------
>   [root at macg5~]# fdisk /dev/sda
> Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF
> disklab                                                                   
>          el
> 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.
> 
> The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 19929.
> There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
> and could in certain setups cause problems with:
> 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
> 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
>    (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
> Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by
> w(rite)
>   Command (m for help): p
>   Disk /dev/sda: 163.9 GB, 163928604672 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19929 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>      Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> 
>   Command (m for help):
> -------------------------------------------------
> 
>   If anyone know the reason why fdisk is not giving proper information in
> YDL=5.0 please reply.
> 
>   Thanks & Regards
>   Naren.
> 
> 
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