Bug 208656

Summary:	sys-apps/util-linux - sfdisk ignores -uS -uB -uC -uM when using -s
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jason Dusek <jason.dusek>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Jason Dusek 2008-02-03 01:18:37 UTC

The man pages suggests that running sfdisk with -uC will cause it to display partition size in cylinders -- but this is not what happens:

 : /home/jsn/sandbox/oqo                                             !057 17:15
 :; sfdisk -uC -s /dev/sda
1007615
 : /home/jsn/sandbox/oqo                                             !058 17:15
 :; sfdisk -uC -l /dev/sda

Disk /dev/sda: 1015 cylinders, 32 heads, 62 sectors/track
Units = cylinders of 1015808 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

   Device Boot Start     End   #cyls    #blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *      0+   1014    1015-   1006879+  83  Linux
/dev/sda2          0       -       0          0    0  Empty
/dev/sda3          0       -       0          0    0  Empty
/dev/sda4          0       -       0          0    0  Empty


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use sfdisk with an option that specifies units.
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Default units -- apparently megabytes.

Expected Results:  
Units as specified by the command line option.

I'm using UTF-8 pervasively on my system -- but of course that should not effect the letters C, S, B and M...

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-02-03 20:40:55 UTC

*** Bug 208792 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2008-02-09 22:34:50 UTC

the -s option takes no arguments as the man page indicates:
sfdisk [options] device
sfdisk -s [partition]

the -u[SBCM] options work otherwise (for example with -l)