> From: Ulf Mehlig <umehlig@uni-bremen.de>
>
> Alan:
>
> > Try fdisk -b 2048 for 2K blocks then it'll look most wrong.
>
> I'm not sure whether I understood what you meant :-| fdisk -b doesn't
> work, and fdisk -l -b 2048 gives same results as -l only.
>
> Use fdisk-2.9i (from util-linux-2.9i) or later.
> Current is 2.9l.
works fine now (however, the 'wrong' method of kernel 2.2.0-beta7 and
fdisk 2.8a made a 606 MB partition, the new one is 599 MB ;-)
Many thanks! BTW, is it possible to mount (IBM-?) SuperFloppy
formatted MO media? I would appreciate a pointer to an appropriate
FAQ-list ...
Thanks again,
Ulf
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Ulf Mehlig <umehlig@zmt.uni-bremen.de>
Center for Tropical Marine Ecology/ZMT, Bremen, Germany
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