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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ignore partition table on disks with AIX label
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 14:04:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1147871055.10470.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060517081314.GA20415@suse.de>

On Mer, 2006-05-17 at 10:13 +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> dmesg will look like this:
>  sda: [AIX]  unknown partition table
> 

You should check for the overlapping partitions as well. The label
itself may be left over if someone repartitions an ex-AIX disk. Simply
adding this test is going to give one or two people a nasty "where has
my data gone" kind of shock.

Having said that perhaps the IBM people can provide proper information
on how to detect/parse the AIX partition data ?

Alan


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-05-17 12:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-17  8:13 [PATCH] ignore partition table on disks with AIX label Olaf Hering
2006-05-17  8:36 ` Andreas Mohr
2006-05-17  8:53 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-05-17  9:10   ` Olaf Hering
2006-05-17 10:14     ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-05-17 18:37       ` Olaf Hering
2006-05-17 18:56         ` Alan Cox
2006-05-17 19:03           ` Olaf Hering
2006-05-17 19:44             ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-05-17 20:03               ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-05-17 13:04 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2006-05-17 12:57   ` Olaf Hering
2006-07-31 12:35 ` Olaf Hering

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