Messages in this thread | | | From | Meelis Roos <> | Subject | Re: rfc: test whether a device has a partition table | Date | Sun, 05 Oct 2003 12:00:22 +0300 |
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LT> If you have unusual cases (and let's face it, they don't much happen - we LT> have traditionally had _very_ few problems with getting things partitioned) LT> then you should be able to override them from user space and have user space LT> be able to tell the kernel about special partitions. LT> LT> And hey, surprise surprise, you can do exactly that. LT> LT> Also, surprise surprise, pretty much nobody actually does it. Because the LT> defaults are so sane.
Well, I have had difficulties with this twice during last year. Both times it was a partitioned CD. One was a Mac CD (IIRC), the other was an IRIX 6.2 installation CD with SGI disklabel and EFS partition. I got the first to work but never had success with the other (probably a user error). fdisk found the partitions fine but gave hints of a different blocksize (2048 vs 512). I tried to set up the partition with devmapper (dmsetup create ...) but I could never mount the resulting partitions. Perhaps it was a EFS filesystem driver blocksize bug, perhaps something with my manual setup.
But I would not say the defaults have been sufficient for _me_.
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