From: Andries Brouwer <aeb@veritas.com>
To: Martin Dalecki <dalecki@evision-ventures.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <p_gortmaker@yahoo.com>,
linux-kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
tytso@mit.edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ident of whole-disk ext2 fs
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 19:17:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001219191706.B367@veritas.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A3F42FC.4E341732@yahoo.com> <20001219184542.A367@veritas.com> <00121919461703.02742@rosomak.prv>
In-Reply-To: <00121919461703.02742@rosomak.prv>; from dalecki@evision-ventures.com on Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 07:46:17PM +0100
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 07:46:17PM +0100, Martin Dalecki wrote:
> Dnia Wto 19. Grudzie? 2000 18:45, Andries Brouwer napisa?:
> > But what if you just replace the "unknown partition table"
> > by "no recognized partition table"
>
> What about the more correct.
> hdd: no partition table
>
> There is no presumed "unknown" partition table at all
> when we can't recognize it.
That is more confusing. The user tends to believe such messages
and will start reformatting / fdisking etc, while in reality
the problem may be that she forgot to enable CONFIG_OSF_PARTITION
or so. (And there are also partition types, like AIX partition,
that the kernel currently has no support for.)
Andries
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-12-19 11:14 [PATCH] ident of whole-disk ext2 fs Paul Gortmaker
2000-12-19 17:45 ` Andries Brouwer
2000-12-19 18:46 ` Martin Dalecki
2000-12-19 18:17 ` Andries Brouwer [this message]
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