Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 30 Sep 2000 00:59:12 +0200 | From | Andries Brouwer <> | Subject | Re: reading 1 hardsector size, not one block size |
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On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 05:36:48PM -0500, Matt_Domsch@Dell.com wrote:
> > >But the question was about reading from disk, not about reading > > >from partition.
> Actually, that's next. In EFI, all partitions have a starting LBA and > ending LBA on the disk. So, it would be easy to have an "odd sized" > partition. In my current case, I would care about reading/writing to a FAT > file system on that partition, or potentially any type file system. My > fdisk enhancement will guarantee that only "even sized" partitions are > created, but if someone else's partitioning program weren't so careful, I'd > still have to live with the consequences.
I don't think there is any reason for such a restriction. If you happen to make a partition with an odd number of sectors and someone creates a filesystem there with 2-sector blocks then the last sector will not be used by the filesystem. Nothing wrong there, happens all the time.
> If I know a partition has a FAT file system on it, may I leave the block > size == hard sector size, and mount it?
Yes.
(Especially if your hard sector size is 512 bytes. I have seen people complain about 2048-byte hard sector size handling.)
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