On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 02:01:32PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > Naive thought: wouldn't it be possible to check whether a partition > > overlaps the HPA boundary and warn or even bug out in that case? > > No - believe me we all thought about that. The PC partition format has > starts but not ends so you need detailed internal file system knowledge > to play guessing games (which thus needs to be user space). Some of the > non PC formats use the middle or end of disk so if you don't know the > size you can't *find* the partition data. > > Alan Hi Alan, Probably I am missing some context, but the above seems to be a false statement. The PC partition format does give you start and size, and no filesystem knowledge is needed to find out where a partition ends. Andries -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
