Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Jun 2002 15:16:14 +0200 | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: /proc/partitions broken in 2.5.23 |
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On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 02:51:54PM +0200, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> An extended partition is a box containing logical partitions. > It is almost always an error when people want to write directly to it > (confusing the extended partition with some logical partition inside). > After a number of reports of people who messed up their disk > by doing mkswap or mkfs on an extended partition I changed > the length of an extended partition to 1 block, enough for LILO > but stopping mkswap and mkfs.
Ah, that makes perfect sense to me now.
Dave.
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