Re: Bug#238091: woody install created bad sun disklabels?
Peter Samuelson wrote:
> [Nathanael Nerode]
>> So it sounds like fdisk in woody created bad, non-standard Sun
>> disklabels. And yet, they somehow worked. Ow.
>
> Actually, no. I investigated a bit; it seems fdisk is right and
> partman (actually libparted) is wrong. I've got a patch, but it's
> incomplete, and only lightly tested. Once I've tested the patch some
> more, I'll reassign this bug to libparted1.6 and 'patch'-tag it.
Oh, that's very cool. :-) A straightforward, solvable bug. :-)
>> If that's not possible (the differences in disk geometry may mean
>> that it isn't possible), I don't know what the right thing to do is
>
> Nobody can give me a good answer for why the kernel and the disk
> disagree on the geometry. It doesn't matter, though, so long as the
> partition table is internally consistent. Which this one is, if you
> parse it right, which libparted doesn't.
>
> Peter
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