Re: cfdisk: Cannot seek on disk drive

[Stelios Parnassidis <stel@ikaria.camelot.de>]

On Sat, 22 Mar 1997, Michael Iles wrote:

[spip] referring to cfdisk w/ disks > 2G
> 
>      FATAL ERROR: Cannot seek on disk drive
> 

After a suggestion on the BUG report system i have put the cast (ext2_loff_t)
at two places in the source file. It seems to work now. Specialists please
verify that this does not break anything else.

diff	cfdisk.c cfdisk.orig

396c396
<     if (ext2_llseek(fd, (ext2_loff_t)sect_num*SECTOR_SIZE, SEEK_SET) < 0)
---
>     if (ext2_llseek(fd, sect_num*SECTOR_SIZE, SEEK_SET) < 0)
404c404
<     if (ext2_llseek(fd, (ext2_loff_t)sect_num*SECTOR_SIZE, SEEK_SET) < 0)
---
>     if (ext2_llseek(fd, sect_num*SECTOR_SIZE, SEEK_SET) < 0)


P.S. There is an attempt to correct this in the debian package util-linux, but it is 
unfortunately applied uneffectively:

NIL:   if (ext2_llseek(fd, (ext2_loff_t)(sect_num*SECTOR_SIZE), SEEK_SET) < 0)


Stelios Parnassidis <stel@ikaria.camelot.de>
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