[3515] in Release_7.7_team
Re: CORRECTION: Odd error from Partition Magic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Fri Sep 20 12:51:18 2002
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@mit.edu>
Cc: release-team@mit.edu, jmhunt@mit.edu
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Date: 20 Sep 2002 12:51:13 -0400
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On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 00:04, andrew m. boardman wrote:
> Note that the LBA "Start" sector is 1 for each of the logical
> partitions.
> Every linux system that I have handy has an lba start sector reported
> like this by fdisk's expert mode. This implies to me that either fdisk
> is broken
Possible, but how hard can it be to just report what you see in the
partition record?
> the field is meaningless for a logical partition
It's not, according to the kernel code.
> or that
> there are indeed cascading extended and logical partitions, but "they all
> do that".
I vote for this one.
