Package: util-linux
Version: 2.12p-5
Severity: wishlist
File: /sbin/fdisk
Odd, one perhaps would hope the output of these two fdisk -l runs
would be exactly the same, instead of so many zeros?
# dd if=/dev/sda of=/usr/local/pqi
# fdisk -l /usr/local/pqi
You must set cylinders.
You can do this from the extra functions menu.
Disk /usr/local/pqi: 0 MB, 0 bytes
4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 0 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 64 * 512 = 32768 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/usr/local/pqi1 * 1 500 15979+ 1 FAT12
# fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 16 MB, 16384512 bytes
4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 500 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 64 * 512 = 32768 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 500 15979+ 1 FAT12
The man page says
-C cyls
Specify the number of cylinders of the disk. I have no idea why
anybody would want to do so.
And indeed it still doesn't change "0 MB, 0 bytes".
(P.S., ls on the contrary shows the number of bytes of the other file
# ls -l /usr/local/pqi /dev/sda
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 0 2002-03-15 05:51 /dev/sda
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16384512 2005-09-24 04:24 /usr/local/pqi )
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