Peter Samuelson wrote: > [Nathanael Nerode] >> So it sounds like fdisk in woody created bad, non-standard Sun >> disklabels. And yet, they somehow worked. Ow. > > Actually, no. I investigated a bit; it seems fdisk is right and > partman (actually libparted) is wrong. I've got a patch, but it's > incomplete, and only lightly tested. Once I've tested the patch some > more, I'll reassign this bug to libparted1.6 and 'patch'-tag it. Oh, that's very cool. :-) A straightforward, solvable bug. :-)
>> If that's not possible (the differences in disk geometry may mean >> that it isn't possible), I don't know what the right thing to do is > > Nobody can give me a good answer for why the kernel and the disk > disagree on the geometry. It doesn't matter, though, so long as the > partition table is internally consistent. Which this one is, if you > parse it right, which libparted doesn't. > > Peter -- Make sure your vote will count. http://www.verifiedvoting.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
