Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261451AbVEIRkD (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 May 2005 13:40:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261458AbVEIRkD (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 May 2005 13:40:03 -0400 Received: from prgy-npn1.prodigy.com ([207.115.54.37]:17820 "EHLO oddball.prodigy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261451AbVEIRjh (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 May 2005 13:39:37 -0400 Message-ID: <427FA061.2090103@tmr.com> Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 13:39:45 -0400 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050319 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-os@analogic.com CC: James Dingwall , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, Chris Wright Subject: Re: Bug: 2.6.11.8 msdos.c References: <427B782E.6040309@tmr.com><3E116F19B784CD47A7CE7F923A436499014C8E39@s2.cramer.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1303 Lines: 34 Richard B. Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 6 May 2005, Bill Davidsen wrote: > >> James Dingwall wrote: >>> Andries' hint about changing the partition types to !0 is a fix for the >>> problem. >> >> >> What is the reason for the patch in the first place? Obviously it's >> intended to do something, or not do something bad, but what's wrong with >> a reserved partition? >> >> I looked at the rest of msdos.c and it wasn't blindingly clear what the >> original intent was. A partition type of zero is unusual, but it's not >> illegal, is it? (as in violates some standard) > > > Can't the problem be fixed by just using Linux fdisk to put in the > correct ID? Unlike MS-DOS fdisk, the Linux fdisk can modify things > without destroying everything else on the drive. Yes, that works. My question was why a zero was considered a bad value instead of "reserved." Not that I disagree, I just don't see the reason. -- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me - 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/