Andries Brouwer wrote: > On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 04:00:55PM -0500, Mike Miller (OS Dev) wrote: > >> Patch 1/1 >> Sometimes partitions claim to be larger than the reported capacity of a >> disk device. This patch makes the kernel ignore those partitions. >> > Or, while doing forensics on a disk one copies the start to some > other disk, and that other disk may be smaller. > Etc. > > So, it seems that Linux loses a little bit of its power when such things > are made impossible. > I've had similar situations when trying to recover data from failed devices. Equally - if you don't know what's going on then partition/disk size mismatch is a bad thing. A loud warning may be more appropriate (and useful) than an ignore. David - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
