From: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
To: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>, Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: /proc/partitions broken in 2.5.23
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 14:51:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020619125154.GA15739@win.tue.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020619134402.B29373@suse.de>
On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 01:44:02PM +0200, Dave Jones wrote:
> hda2 is odd looking too showing a #blocks of '1', when
> it's actually..
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda2 234 58168 29199240 5 Extended
That is correct, and something I did before you were born.
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.
People who really want to access these blocks, like e.g. fdisk,
can do so via /dev/hda.
Andries
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-19 12:51 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 [this message]
2002-06-19 13:16 ` Dave Jones
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
[not found] <641481775@toto.iv>
2002-06-26 3:22 ` Peter Chubb
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