Re: Why check legacy partition table for non-legacy HDs?

[Andrew Clausen]

On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 01:33:28AM +0200, Pixel wrote:
> talking about legacy, I encounter more and more pbs "Total allocated
> sectors %d greater than the maximum %d" because the size of a hard
> drive is not always a multiple of the number of Cylinders (see below)
> 
> In diskdrake, i'm considering adjusting the end of the last partition
> on the last cylinder for compatibility with legacy tools (fdisk,
> pqmagic). fdisk could be enhanced to handle this, but pqmagic... :-(

What do you mean by "adjusting"?  As in, resizing existing partitions?

Parted will cope with disks that use the last (incomplete) cylinder,
but doesn't use it itself.

This is the Right Thing TM, IMHO.

Cheers,
Andrew