sfdisk/sarge and ida partitions

[Sam Vilain]

On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 17:09, Jay Kusler wrote;

  > an sfdisk anomaly.  setup_hardisks on sarge fails unless I
  > explicitly pass the device name to sfdisk by patching
  > setup_hardisks.
  >           $result = `sh -c "LC_ALL=C sfdisk -g -q"`;
  > becomes:  $result = `sh -c "LC_ALL=C sfdisk -g -q /dev/ida/c0d0"`;    

On a related note, I notice that sfdisk doesn't return information on
any SCSI devices beyond /dev/sde unless explicitly passed to it
either.  Just where *does* sfdisk get its list of block devices/disks
from, and why is it so buggy?  Anyone?
-- 
Sam Vilain, sam at vilain.net

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