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Re: Error Writing Partition Changes to DASD



On Tuesday 22 May 2007 19:10, Adam Thornton wrote:
> On May 22, 2007, at 11:21 AM, Rod Clayton wrote:
> > Error informing the kernel about modifications to partition
> > /dev/dasda5 -- Invalid argument.  This means Linux won't know about
> > any changes you made to /dev/dasda5 until you reboot -- so you
> > shouldn't mount it or use it in any way before rebooting.
>
> AFAIK, the CKD driver only supports 4 devices per partition.  In the
> S/390 world, you generally use 1 per partition and define additional
> devices, particularly under VM.

Please file a bug report against partman-base for this issue.
It should probably check that the maximum number of partitions supported 
by the disk label/partition table is not being exceeded. Not sure yet if 
this is an issue in partman or libparted.

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