On Thu 07-05-09 16:43:58, Michal Hocko wrote: > [Please CC me as I am not subscribed to the list] > > Hi, > > we have received report from one of our customers that they have a > problem with sfdisk which doesn't check and shout loudly when 2TB > boundary is crossed when partition is created. This results in silent > ignoring of the new partition. > > I have noticed a similar bug report in Debian bugzilla[1] but this one > is silent for more than 4 years. > > I do understand that user should know what he is doing when creating a > partion and that msdos partitions are limited to 2TB, but is there any > special reason why this limit is not checked? Any opinion on this issue? > > --- > [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=324525 > -- > Michal Hocko > L3 team > SUSE LINUX s.r.o. > Lihovarska 1060/12 > 190 00 Praha 9 > Czech Republic -- Michal Hocko L3 team SUSE LINUX s.r.o. Lihovarska 1060/12 190 00 Praha 9 Czech Republic -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
