Messages in this thread | | | From | Oliver Neukum <> | Subject | Re: Checking a USB drive's capacity | Date | Tue, 23 Dec 2008 13:32:32 +0100 |
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Am Dienstag, 23. Dezember 2008 05:51:39 schrieb Robert Hancock: > It seems to me that the safest solution would be to mark USB storage > devices as unsafe for last-sector partition table probing, like some > kind of CAPACITY_DUBIOUS flag, causing it to be skipped on these > devices, at least by default. After all, it would seem quite unusual to > see anything other than a DOS-style partition table on a USB storage > device (or else no partition table at all).
That would not help if user space (especially udev helpers) go for the end of the device.
Regards Oliver
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