On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 08:43:44PM +0000, Richard Hirst wrote: > The other issue with GPT is disks with odd numbers of sectors. > parted has code to do a special ioctl to get at the last sector, > but that ioctl is not part of the standard kernel. So if you > have an odd number of sectors parted with throw up an error. > The ioctl is considered an ugly incorrect solution, and something > better should be available in 2.5 kernels. That said, I've three > different sizes of disk on my ia64 boxes, and they all have an even > number of sectors - I've no idea how common odd numbers of sectors > are.
I thought it was partitions with odd numbers of sectors that were the problem? -- Revolutions do not require corporate support.
