Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264601AbTK3Npk (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Nov 2003 08:45:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264909AbTK3Npj (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Nov 2003 08:45:39 -0500 Received: from fep21-0.kolumbus.fi ([193.229.0.48]:46026 "EHLO fep21-app.kolumbus.fi") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264601AbTK3Npg (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Nov 2003 08:45:36 -0500 Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:44:44 +0200 (MET DST) From: Szakacsits Szabolcs X-X-Sender: szaka@ua178d119.elisa.omakaista.fi To: Andries Brouwer cc: Sven Luther , Andrew Clausen , Apurva Mehta , Linux Kernel Mailing List , bug-parted@gnu.org Subject: Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX In-Reply-To: <20031129124116.GB5372@win.tue.nl> Message-ID: References: <20031128045854.GA1353@home.woodlands> <20031128142452.GA4737@win.tue.nl> <20031129022221.GA516@gnu.org> <20031129091843.GA2430@iliana> <20031129124116.GB5372@win.tue.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, Andries Brouwer wrote: > You see, saving the logical partitions is not enough - these sectors > are spread out over the disk, and there used to be something else > where these sectors are written. Yes but fdisk, cfdisk and parted doesn't have this feature either. Those are what people use most often from the command line for interactive partitioning (use the right tool for the job). Saving the table with sfdisk is the best but imperfect workaround. sfdisk can't know what steps will be done later on with a different partitioning tool. But at least its data should be enough to diagnose problems in the other partitioning tools. Szaka - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/