On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 10:20:40PM +0100, David Laight wrote:
> > >Synopsis:       fdisk is missing an option to avoid displaying extended partition data
> 
> I have a version (which I must do some further testing of) that is
> slightly less verbose - unless gives one, or more, -v paramters.
> 
> The current extended partition print assumes (incorrectly) that the
> extended partition is a tree structure, not a list.
> The default output from my version is:
> 
> 
> Disk: /dev/rwd0d
> NetBSD disklabel disk geometry:
> cylinders: 16383, heads: 16, sectors/track: 63 (1008 sectors/cylinder)
> total sectors: 40032696
> 
> BIOS disk geometry:
> cylinders: 1023, heads: 255, sectors/track: 63 (16065 sectors/cylinder)
> total sectors: 40032696
> 
> Partition table:
> 0: NetBSD (sysid 169)
>     bootmenu: net 1.5.
>     start 4209030, size 8289540 (4048 MB, Cyls 262-778), Active
> 1: Primary DOS with 32 bit FAT (sysid 11)
>     bootmenu: win98
>     start 63, size 4208967 (2055 MB, Cyls 0-262)
> 2: NetBSD (sysid 169)
>     bootmenu: current
>     start 32515560, size 7517136 (3670 MB, Cyls 2024-2491/234/40)
> 3: Ext. partition - LBA (sysid 15)
>     start 12498570, size 20016990 (9774 MB, Cyls 778-2024)
> Extended partition table:
> E0: NetBSD (sysid 169)
>     bootmenu: test 0
>     start 12498633, size 12305727 (6009 MB, Cyls 778-1544)
> E1: NetBSD (sysid 169)
>     bootmenu: test1
>     start 24804423, size 4096512 (2000 MB, Cyls 1544-1799)
> E2: NetBSD (sysid 169)
>     bootmenu: test2
>     start 28900998, size 3614562 (1765 MB, Cyls 1799-2024)
> Bootselector enabled, infinite timeout.

How do you deal with multiple extended partitions, and extended partitions in
extended partitions ?
I think a tree structure is closed to what and extended partition is, than
a list.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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