Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932545AbWEQMvb (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 May 2006 08:51:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932548AbWEQMvb (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 May 2006 08:51:31 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:45984 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932545AbWEQMvb (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 May 2006 08:51:31 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] ignore partition table on disks with AIX label From: Alan Cox To: Olaf Hering Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20060517081314.GA20415@suse.de> References: <20060517081314.GA20415@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 14:04:15 +0100 Message-Id: <1147871055.10470.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-4.fc4) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 735 Lines: 20 On Mer, 2006-05-17 at 10:13 +0200, Olaf Hering wrote: > dmesg will look like this: > sda: [AIX] unknown partition table > You should check for the overlapping partitions as well. The label itself may be left over if someone repartitions an ex-AIX disk. Simply adding this test is going to give one or two people a nasty "where has my data gone" kind of shock. Having said that perhaps the IBM people can provide proper information on how to detect/parse the AIX partition data ? Alan - 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/