From: Linus Nielsen Feltzing <linus_at_haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 09:03:43 +0100

Honda wrote:
> If I try to use your geometry, fdisk creates a partition called
> /dev/sda1p1 and my partition disappears right after I do mkdosfs and the
> number of cylinders changes to 775 instead of 776.
>
> How do I make fdisk display its "probed" geometry?

I'm starting to believe that you run fdisk on /dev/sda1 instead of
/dev/sda. Can you confirm that you run fdisk with

# fdisk /dev/sda

and not

# fdisk /dev/sda1

?

Linus
Received on 2003-11-05