On Sun, 20 Dec 2009, Clemens Fruhwirth wrote: > On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Isn't just changing a block device's size at random times a bad thing > > to do? Â The size gets used a for a bunch of different things (checking > > partition boundaries, validating I/O block ranges, and so on). > > Forcefully extending partition boundaries and I/O block ranges was > just what I had in mind. My card reader was listed as being compatible > with card >1GB, and I suspected that this was only verified under > Windows. I knew that Windows believed in the partition table more > strongly than into device boundaries, so I figured that would probably > work. And it did. Just out of curiousity, what happens if you try to repartition and format a card using this reader under Windows? Does it restrict the total available size to 1 GB? If it does, doesn't that indicate the reader _isn't_ compatible with large cards? Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
