On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 10:14:28AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> 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?
I don't see any special reasons.
> Any opinion on this issue?
It seems we need a patch :-)
Karel
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