Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 30 Mar 2000 12:48:45 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | ext2 trying to read last sector? [Re: Answer (Re: Cylinder limits jumper for drives over 32GB)] |
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Hi!
> > What happens? Currently booted linux sees partition table horribly > > wrong and refusing to mount partitions that span last 8Gig. Where is > > the FS destruction? > > You assume the worst and begin from there...... > Since I have not done this yet......I started from the worst > possible view.
Well, I'm not sure ext2 behaves like that (it should with -o check, which is now gone), but trying to read last sector of ext2 partition on mount and refusing mount if it fails is not too hard. Pavel -- The best software in life is free (not shareware)! Pavel GCM d? s-: !g p?:+ au- a--@ w+ v- C++@ UL+++ L++ N++ E++ W--- M- Y- R+
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