On Fri, 2014-08-08 at 09:52 +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 9:20 PM, One Thousand Gnomes > <gnomes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, 07 Aug 2014 17:03:08 +0300 > > Boaz Harrosh <boaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> From: Boaz Harrosh <boaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >> > >> Some programs like fdisk, require HDIO_GETGEO to work, which requires we > >> implement getgeo. > >> > >> We set all hd_geometry members to 1, because this way fdisk > >> math will not try its crazy geometry math and get stuff totally wrong. > > > > If you are running a new storage system for god sake don't use DOS > > partitioning, use GPT or something sane. > > > > I am always using GPT, on all my systems for few years now. > Fdisk works exactly the same, regardless of format, regarding alignment > and start sectors. Yes, fdisk now supports GPT, for about the past two years now. In fact it has been completely rewritten. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
