On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 03:54:23PM +0100, Chris Webb wrote:
> Fix fdisk and cfdisk to be consistent about maximum heads
>
> Without this patch, fdisk allows up to 256 heads to be set via the menu, but
> only up to 255 heads by command line -H. Similarly, cfdisk's -H option also
> enforces heads <= 255 instead of heads <= 256.
>
> The strange limit of 256 comes about because (heads - 1) should fit in a
> single byte for legacy CHS. Geometries of 256 heads and 32 sectors are seen
> in disks from other operating systems where cylinder-aligned partitions
> which are also aligned to a 4MB boundary are wanted.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chris Webb <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fdisk/cfdisk.c | 2 +-
> fdisk/fdisk.c | 2 +-
> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
Applied, thanks.
Karel
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Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx>
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