Re: Why aren't partitions limited to fit within the device?
- From: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 09:28:55 +0200
On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 10:08 +1000, Neil Brown wrote:
On Friday October 13, alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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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