[ale] EOF thrice

[Geoffrey]

Okay this is too wierd for me.  What happens if you do in interactively?

That is, execute fdisk and at the prompt type 'p'.

If you get different output, cut/paste it to an email and post it.

ChangingLINKS.com wrote:
> DOH! What to do now? Same exact response: 
> 
> t]# echo -e 'p\\nq' |fdisk /dev/hda > /data/fdisk.txt
> 
> The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1244.
> There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
> and could in certain setups cause problems with:
> 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
> 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
>    (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
> 
> got EOF thrice - exiting..
> 
> 
> 
> On Friday 16 August 2002 08:18, Geoffrey wrote:
> 
>>ChangingLINKS.com wrote:
>>
>>>]# echo p\\nq |fdisk /dev/hda > /data/fdisk.txt
>>
>>My bad on this one, I'm a ksh'er not a bash'er.  In bash try this:
>>
>>echo -e 'p\\nq' |fdisk /dev/hda > /data/fdisk.txt
>>
>>and post that...
> 
> 


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