Hi,
anyone an idea whats that good for?
/dev/sda is my main drive, sda1 is my / and sda2 my /home as sda3 and 4 are / and /home of an older siduction installation I kept. sda5 is /data.
Quotefdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 119,2 GiB, 128035676160 bytes, 250069680 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: F4138040-7A1E-45B1-AB65-0A874822EE18
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sda1 2048 31459327 31457280 15G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda2 31459328 73402367 41943040 20G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda3 73402368 109053951 35651584 17G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda4 109053952 153094143 44040192 21G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda5 153094144 250068991 96974848 46,2G Linux filesystem
gdisk -l /dev/sda
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.10
Partition table scan:
MBR: protective
BSD: not present
APM: not present
GPT: present
Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.
Disk /dev/sda: 250069680 sectors, 119.2 GiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): F4138040-7A1E-45B1-AB65-0A874822EE18
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 250069646
Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
Total free space is 2669 sectors (1.3 MiB)
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
1 2048 31459327 15.0 GiB 0700 Linux filesystem
2 31459328 73402367 20.0 GiB 0700 Linux filesystem
3 73402368 109053951 17.0 GiB 0700 Linux filesystem
4 109053952 153094143 21.0 GiB 0700 Linux filesystem
5 153094144 250068991 46.2 GiB 8300
greets
ayla
I've been noticing the same thing myself for a while:
# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 1.4 TiB, 1500301910016 bytes, 2930277168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 78410F99-5523-4B97-9434-ADBBDF60DB07
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sda1 2048 401407 399360 195M EFI System
/dev/sda2 401408 2498559 2097152 1G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda3 2498560 736501759 734003200 350G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda4 736501760 820387839 83886080 40G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda5 820387840 853942271 33554432 16G Linux swap
/dev/sda6 853942272 916856831 62914560 30G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda7 916856832 1650860031 734003200 350G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda8 1650860032 1713774591 62914560 30G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda9 1713774592 2447777791 734003200 350G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda10 2447777792 2449874943 2097152 1G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda11 2449874944 2930276351 480401408 229.1G Microsoft basic data
Parted, at least, shows it as flags:
# parted
GNU Parted 3.2
Using /dev/sda
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) print
Model: ATA ST1500DM003-9YN1 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 1500GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 1049kB 206MB 204MB fat16 EFI System Partition boot, esp
2 206MB 1279MB 1074MB ext3 msftdata
3 1279MB 377GB 376GB ext4 msftdata
4 377GB 420GB 42.9GB ext4 msftdata
5 420GB 437GB 17.2GB linux-swap(v1)
6 437GB 469GB 32.2GB ext4 msftdata
7 469GB 845GB 376GB ext4 msftdata
8 845GB 877GB 32.2GB ext4 msftdata
9 877GB 1253GB 376GB ext4 msftdata
10 1253GB 1254GB 1074MB ext4 msftdata
11 1254GB 1500GB 246GB ext4 msftdata
It is annoying. Seeing Linux ext4 filesystems shown as Microsoft data.
Hello ayla,
what a nice finding!
Why do you see this now?
Fdisk is part of the util-linux package which was largely unmaintained in debian. There only have been non-maintainer-uploads (NMUs) for years. Now the situation has changed and with the new packages came a new fdisk. I think, the old fdisk just wasn't capable.
Okay, and what is this about?
Rod Smith, the author of the "GPT fdisk" variants (gdisk, cgdisk, sgdisk and libparted), has an explanation http://www.rodsbooks.com/linux-fs-code/ .
greetings
musca
Thanks for the link musca, it does explain a lot.