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Ar Gwe, 2006-10-13 am 09:50 +1000, ysgrifennodd Neil Brown: > So: Is there any good reason to not clip the partitions to fit > within the device - and discard those that are completely beyond > the end of the device?? Its close but not quite the right approach > The patch at the end of the mail does that. Is it OK to submit this > to mainline? No I think not. Any partition which is partly outside the disk should be ignored entirely, that ensures it doesn't accidentally get mounted and trashed by an HPA or similar mixup. I agree it should be fixed, I just don't think your fix is actually a real fix in this case. - 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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