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


From: Andrew Clausen
Subject: Re: Why check legacy partition table for non-legacy HDs?
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 07:38:00 +1000
User-agent: Mutt/1.4i

On Sun, Sep 15, 2002 at 02:25:31PM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> > I agree, that explains everything.  So, do you think Parted is doing
> > The Right Thing TM?  (I do)
> 
> I don't know. Since kernel has no problem, why should parted?

Because the kernel is read-only, but parted is read-write.
The kernel doesn't need to use the information for anything (directly).

Parted needs it to modify partition tables, which could screw up
MS-DOS, for example.

> Kernel and fdisk are happy with this. Only parted doesn't like it.

Fdisk can't resize partitions, so it doesn't need to know either.
(New partitions will be broken, but it's unlikely that will be a problem)

Cheers,
Andrew





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