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Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX
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Andries Brouwer |
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Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX |
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Fri, 28 Nov 2003 15:24:52 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.3.25i |
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 10:28:54AM +0530, Apurva Mehta wrote:
> On 2.6.0-testx kernels, I have noticed that there are problems with
> GNU Parted. Parted says that the disk geometries reported by the
> kernel are incorrect.
Yes. Parted should be fixed not to complain.
There is no such thing as a "correct" disk geometry.
Roughly speaking the kernel no longer attempts to report anything,
so calling HDIO_GETGEO is useless (for this purpose).
Andries