Hi LaMont,
Would you check this Debian patch and comment if it's okay (or already
included in Git repository) so that this grave bug could be closed.
Thanks,
Jari
From: Aurelien Jarno <[email protected]>
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=510130
While I agree with the analysis, the patch looks more like a workaround
than a real solution. The problem is that when free space doesn't start
on a cylinder boundary (the case for the free space after the volume
header), there might be less than one cylinder to create a partition.
The code to ask for partition boundaries is using cylinders (probably
because partition start should be cylinder aligned) and thus doesn't
cope with this issue.
The patch below fixes the issue by making sure free space always starts
as a cylinder boundary, as anyway that's the only possible location to
create a new partition.
--- util-linux-2.13.1.1.orig/fdisk/fdisksgilabel.c
+++ util-linux-2.13.1.1/fdisk/fdisksgilabel.c
@@ -501,6 +501,9 @@
}
start = sgi_get_start_sector(Index[i])
+ sgi_get_num_sectors(Index[i]);
+ /* Align free space on cylinder boundary */
+ if (start % cylsize != 0)
+ start += cylsize - (start % cylsize);
if (debug > 1) {
if (verbose)
printf("%2d:%12d\t%12d\t%12d\n", Index[i],
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