Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 09:16:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 09:16:13 -0400 Received: from ns.suse.de ([213.95.15.193]:16392 "EHLO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 09:16:13 -0400 Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 15:16:14 +0200 From: Dave Jones To: Andries Brouwer Cc: Linux Kernel Subject: Re: /proc/partitions broken in 2.5.23 Message-ID: <20020619151614.C29373@suse.de> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Andries Brouwer , Linux Kernel References: <20020619090248.GA8681@suse.de> <20020619113233.GA15730@win.tue.nl> <20020619134402.B29373@suse.de> <20020619125154.GA15739@win.tue.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020619125154.GA15739@win.tue.nl>; from aebr@win.tue.nl on Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 02:51:54PM +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 872 Lines: 23 On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 02:51:54PM +0200, Andries Brouwer wrote: > An extended partition is a box containing logical partitions. > It is almost always an error when people want to write directly to it > (confusing the extended partition with some logical partition inside). > After a number of reports of people who messed up their disk > by doing mkswap or mkfs on an extended partition I changed > the length of an extended partition to 1 block, enough for LILO > but stopping mkswap and mkfs. Ah, that makes perfect sense to me now. Dave. -- | Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk | SuSE Labs - 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/