Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Jan 2000 14:37:55 -0800 (PST) | From | Tigran Aivazian <> | Subject | 2.3.40-pre1: Partition Enumeration |
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Hi,
I am not sure the current algorithm for enumerating 3rd party partitions is perfect. It makes it very hard to switch between booting kernels with and without support for those partitions. E.g. I have 2.2.12 from Red Hat 6.1 that has no support for UnixWare and FreeBSD partitions and now use 2.3.40-pre1 with support for those two and all my normal (i.e. Linux ext2) partitions get shifted around. That;s not good.
To make it clear, have a look at these:
# fdisk -l /dev/hda
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3467 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 9 72261 83 Linux /dev/hda2 10 264 2048287+ a5 BSD/386 /dev/hda3 * 265 902 5124735 63 GNU HURD or SysV /dev/hda4 903 3467 20603362+ 5 Extended /dev/hda5 903 968 530113+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hda6 969 1733 6144831 83 Linux /dev/hda7 1734 2116 3076416 6 FAT16 /dev/hda8 2117 3467 10851876 83 Linux # grep hda /proc/partitions 3 0 27852048 hda 3 1 72261 hda1 3 2 2048287 hda2 3 3 5124735 hda3 3 4 1 hda4 3 5 4795402 hda5 3 6 208845 hda6 3 7 17 hda7 3 8 8015 hda8 3 9 24097 hda9 3 10 8032 hda10 3 11 530113 hda11 3 12 6144831 hda12 3 13 3076416 hda13 3 14 10851876 hda14 3 15 1843200 hda15 3 16 205087 hda16
see, my rootfs switched from /dev/hda6 to /dev/hda12.
Regards, Tigran.
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