Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Why aren't partitions limited to fit within the device? | From | Xavier Bestel <> | Date | Mon, 16 Oct 2006 09:28:55 +0200 |
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On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 10:08 +1000, Neil Brown wrote: > On Friday October 13, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk wrote: > > 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. > > Hmmm.. So Alan things a partially-outside-this-disk partition > shouldn't show up at all, and Andries thinks it should. > And both give reasonably believable justifications.
Maybe the whole part table should be marked as "weird" to let userspace run a diagnostics/repair tool on the disk.
Xav
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