You have an old util-linux - grab 2.9i
> 2.2.0-beta7. Did you mean that? Heavens, I'm very ingnorant in those
> things, but I thought "2048 byte/sector" on the MO disk label means
> formatting with -b 2048, and I simply overlooked the sector/byte
> information of fdisk, which suggest a different notion of
> sector. Hmm. But I don't want to waste your time ... Many thanks for
> you answer and everything ;-)
The old fdisk and kernel both had bugs interpreting partition tables. On
2K media the counts are scaled down by a factor of 4 (versus 512 byte media).
The 2.9i fdisk gets this right with fdisk -b 2048 as does th ekernel. This
also means we can interwork now with M/O disks from other vendors
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