[9066] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Problem with MO in 2.2.16
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (M G Berberich)
Fri Jun 23 03:42:20 2000
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 09:40:28 +0200
From: M G Berberich <berberic@forwiss.uni-passau.de>
To: Andries Brouwer <aeb@veritas.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
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Hello,
Am Donnerstag, den 22. Juni 2000 23:03:42 schrieb Andries Brouwer:
>=20
> In other words, nothing is wrong with the heuristic, but when people
> partition their disk with some fdisk, nobody knows which version
> they use, nobody knows whether they use the -b 2048 flag, they just
> get something, correct or not.
fdisk v2.10f.=20
> And once they have something that works under 2.2.15 while the
> heuristic applies then it certainly doesnt work under 2.2.16
> (because the starting point of all partitions is changed by a factor
> 4; in particular, it does not stay the same).
> Now you ask: but wasn't then the old partition table broken? Quite
> possibly, yes. And if he did mke2fs on it, does not the ext2
> filesystem extend beyond the end of the disk?
No, it does not.=20
> Maybe. He should certainly check.
How? Is there some partition-check-utility?
MfG
bmg
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