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On Tuesday 01 April 2003 12:35, you wrote: [info about acorn partitioning schemes] Ok, thanks for the explanation about the scheme dependencies. I guess adding a comment like "/* this must come before msdos */" in the respective line of fs/partition/check.c could cut down in the number of people asking you the same question over and over again.. :-) > > Also, is there a way to make the acorn test more specific? > > s/acorn/powertec/ > > We may be able to check that start,start+size lies within the overall > drive size. Whether this solves the problem will depend upon the contents > of sector 0 for the x86 drives which clash. However, as drive sizes > increase, this test will become less and less effective (and at 2TiB > it doesn't help at all. Hm, what do you think of these additional checks: 1. Check for overlap of partitions 2. Check for number of recognized partitions (i.e. size != 0) > 0 3. Check for struct ptec_partition.unused1, unused2, unused5 == 0 (assuming they default to zero) Anyway, thanks again for the info. Regards, Peter Oberparleiter - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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