Re: Partitions whith length % 4096 != 0

[Szakacsits Szabolcs]

On Sat, 24 Apr 2004, [iso-8859-1] address@hidden wrote:

> >(1) you might need to use that read/write-last-sector
> ioctl.  (dd should
> >do this - so use dd?).  See libparted/linux.c,
> _write_lastoddsector().
> >(Note: there is a patch pending against this stuff)
> It seems that theses ioctl are not in 2.4.25 and 2.4.26
> anymore...
> there seem to be quite strange things happening in Linux...

AFAIK they were never part of the kernel, only some distro applied the
relevant kernel patch that basically generated more problems instead of
solving the original one. In unlucky cases one can corrupt data by
"innocent" commands thus not many utils use it. See e.g. the 'conflicting
block ioctls' at

        http://lwn.net/2001/0906/kernel.php3

    Szaka