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Re: Parted CHS patch
From: |
Andrew Clausen |
Subject: |
Re: Parted CHS patch |
Date: |
Sat, 7 Aug 2004 10:54:08 +1000 |
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Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i |
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 05:25:01PM -0400, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
> This clever code is all very nice, but it still does not let me
> override the geometry from the command line. I need this capability
> to partition blank (or corrupted) disks properly.
>
> Will you add such a mechanism? If not, would you accept patches which
> did?
Yes and yes.
What's a good UI?
# parted /dev/hda 23583/128/32
(parted) select /dev/hda 23583/128/32
Should Parted override this geometry if it can infer it from the
partition table? Should it ask?
Eg:
You told Parted that /dev/hda has geometry 23583/128/32.
However, the partitions on /dev/hda say that /dev/hda has
geometry 14556/255/63. If you select Fix, then Parted will
tell the partition table that 23583/128/32 is the correct
geometry. If you select Ignore, then Parted will assume that
14556/255/63 is correct.
Fix/Ignore/Cancel?
If the user selects "fix", should Parted also replace the Bios Parameter
Blocks in FAT and NTFS file systems?
Cheers,
Andrew