On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 11:13:42 -0400 William L. Maltby <BillsCentOS at triad.rr.com> wrote: > > I am quite sure that this is an 'sfdisk' issue unrelated to the > > problem I needed to solve. But I would like to be careful before > > I declare [RESOLVED]. > > My workstation, in use for over a year now, shows the same warning > message (start=63...) as your transcript. Further, having used sfdisk > for a *long* time for some fairly rigorous applications, I have complete > confidence in it. Reread the man sections on the "+" and "-" suffix and > you get your first clue. The run sfdisk again and add "-uS" and I think > you will be OK with it. [snip] > > Perhaps I will try sfdisk with a different machine to see if > > there is a difference. > > I don't think you'll see any difference if the config is similar. I've > attached my transcript below. > Indeed your example (below) confirms that this is an sfdisk issue, unrelated to my LVM problem which I now consider resolved. Well, this is what I call 2 (or 3) at the price of one. Thanks for the extra education! Itay > ============================================================= > [root at wlmlfs08 ~]# sfdisk -l > > Disk /dev/hda: 12161 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track > Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0 > > Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System > /dev/hda1 * 0+ 12 13- 104391 83 Linux > /dev/hda2 13 2445 2433 19543072+ 8e Linux LVM > /dev/hda3 2446 4876 2431 19527007+ 8e Linux LVM > /dev/hda4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty > Warning: start=63 - this looks like a partition rather than > the entire disk. Using fdisk on it is probably meaningless. > [Use the --force option if you really want this] > > [root at wlmlfs08 ~]# sfdisk -l -uS > > Disk /dev/hda: 12161 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track > Units = sectors of 512 bytes, counting from 0 > > Device Boot Start End #sectors Id System > /dev/hda1 * 63 208844 208782 83 Linux > /dev/hda2 208845 39294989 39086145 8e Linux LVM > /dev/hda3 39294990 78349004 39054015 8e Linux LVM > /dev/hda4 0 - 0 0 Empty > Warning: start=63 - this looks like a partition rather than > the entire disk. Using fdisk on it is probably meaningless. > [Use the --force option if you really want this] > [root at wlmlfs08 ~]# > ============================================================================