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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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To: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
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Subject: Re: 2.6.x partition breakage and dual booting
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Andries Brouwer wrote:
> The link you give describes a user space problem.
> The fdisk versions that I maintain all work fine - apparently
> Fedora Core uses something else to change partition tables,
> and that something else makes assumptions that are invalid.
> (Maybe it uses parted?)
> 
> I can tell you in great detail all about disk geometry,
> and the 2.4 situation and the 2.6 situation.


Please educate me :)  Brutally, and in public :)

	Jeff