fdisk issue
Michael Neumann
mneumann at ntecs.de
Sat Aug 11 11:25:28 PDT 2007
Matthew Dillon wrote:
:Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:
:> To conclude, I am very sorry that you had to screw open your laptop
:> several times to make it work again. I'll commit a fix ASAP.
:
:Does this look good?
:<http://chlamydia.fs.ei.tum.de/~corecode/unsorted/fdisk-fix.diff>
I'm not sure we should change this. The standard specifically says
all 1's for disks which exceed the CHS limits. Wrapped values can
create massive problems if the HD in question happens to cause a wrap
that makes the disk look really really tiny.
Hm, but I think this never really happens! FreeBSD doesn't do that (they
even don't have an option to set all 1's), and I think no one ever had
problems with it.
Regards,
Michael
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