From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
To: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: /proc/partitions broken in 2.5.23
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 15:16:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020619151614.C29373@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020619125154.GA15739@win.tue.nl>; from aebr@win.tue.nl on Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 02:51:54PM +0200
On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 02:51:54PM +0200, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> An extended partition is a box containing logical partitions.
> It is almost always an error when people want to write directly to it
> (confusing the extended partition with some logical partition inside).
> After a number of reports of people who messed up their disk
> by doing mkswap or mkfs on an extended partition I changed
> the length of an extended partition to 1 block, enough for LILO
> but stopping mkswap and mkfs.
Ah, that makes perfect sense to me now.
Dave.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-19 13:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-19 9:02 /proc/partitions broken in 2.5.23 Dave Jones
2002-06-19 11:32 ` Andries Brouwer
2002-06-19 11:44 ` Dave Jones
2002-06-19 12:51 ` Andries Brouwer
2002-06-19 13:16 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2002-06-19 17:18 ` Wayne Whitney
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2002-06-20 23:21 Andries.Brouwer
2002-06-20 23:34 ` Dave Jones
2002-06-20 23:42 ` Anders Gustafsson
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2002-06-26 3:22 ` Peter Chubb
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