Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi,
> When a gpt partition is bigger than it can be represented in msdos label, > gptsync will truncate it and just issue a warning. I think truncating a > partition is _very wrong_ as it typicaly contains a filesystem and truncating > that is likely to result in data corruption! Considering that whatever OS you happen to use on the machine should exclusively trust the GPT and nothing else, I don't agree with you here. > gptsync/gptsync.c: Print(L"Warning: Partition %d extends > beyond 2 TiB limit\n", i+1); > > IMHO it should never do this unless user explicitly requested it, if at all. > Simply excluding the partition looks like the safest bet. However, I think a > 2 TB partition can be ignored as, anyway: - it's unlikely you're installing your bootloader on it - even if you were to install the bootloader on it, that would probably fail :-) (can lilo or grub handle 2 TB partition with the stage2 files well into the partition?) Did you run into this problem or were you just reading the code? JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Public key available on <http://www.jblache.org> - KeyID: F5D6 5169 GPG Fingerprint : 935A 79F1 C8B3 3521 FD62 7CC7 CD61 4FD7 F5D6 5169 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
