From owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 12 11:00:19 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 646E21065670 for ; Sun, 12 Sep 2010 11:00:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 397CC8FC14 for ; Sun, 12 Sep 2010 11:00:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o8CB0JG9060636 for ; Sun, 12 Sep 2010 11:00:19 GMT (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id o8CB0JvS060622; Sun, 12 Sep 2010 11:00:19 GMT (envelope-from gnats) Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 11:00:19 GMT Message-Id: <201009121100.o8CB0JvS060622@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org From: Bruce Cran Cc: Subject: Re: bin/20633: fdisk(8) doesn't handle LBA correctly X-BeenThere: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Bruce Cran List-Id: Bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 11:00:19 -0000 The following reply was made to PR bin/20633; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Bruce Cran To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, sjr@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