Re: 1.4.4 doesnt recognize all pdisk partitions

[Andrew Clausen]

Olaf Hering wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> current pdisk doesnt display all available pdisk partitions:
> 
> peach:~ # pdisk -l /dev/sda
> 
> Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/sda'
>  #:                type name             length   base    ( size )
>  1: Apple_partition_map 'Apple          '      63 @ 1
>  2:      Apple_Driver43*'Macintosh      '      54 @ 64
>  3:      Apple_Driver43*'Macintosh      '      74 @ 118
>  4:       Apple_Patches 'Patch Partition'     512 @ 192
>  5:           Apple_HFS 'seagate        '  126499 @ 704     ( 61.8M)
>  6:          Apple_Free 'Ohne Titel 2   ' 2105955 @ 127203  (  1.0G)
>  7:          Apple_Free 'Ohne Titel 3   '  270704 @ 2233158 (132.2M)
>  8:          Apple_Free 'Extra          '      10 @ 2503862
> 
> Device block size=512, Number of Blocks=2503871 (1.2G)
> DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0
> Drivers-
> 1:  21 @ 64, type=0x1
> 2:  36 @ 118, type=0xffff
> 
> (parted) print
> Disk geometry for /dev/sda: 0.000-1222.593 megabytes
> Disk label type: mac
> Minor    Start       End     Filesystem  Name                  Flags
> 1          0.000      0.031              Apple
> 2          0.031      0.057              Macintosh
> 3          0.058      0.093              Macintosh
> 4          0.094      0.343              Patch Partition
> 5          0.344     62.110  hfs         Ohne Titel

This is a feature, not a bug TM

Parted "hides" free space partitions (Apple_Free & friends), to keep the
interface consistent on all architectures.

Andrew Clausen