On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:53 PM, Benjamin Scott <dragonh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Jerry Feldman <g...@blu.org> wrote: > > I am running Fedora 12 with kernel 2.6.31.12-174.2.3.fc12.x86_64 > > LVM is lvm2-2.02.53-2.fc12.x86_64 > > Does Fedora have an updates for the kernel or LVM (or device mapper, > etc.) to install? > > > I've posted the details at: http://pastebin.com/4AtMzEjr > > > According to the output of "fdisk -l", the end of sda1 and the start > of sda2 both occur within cylinder 26. This may or may not be a > problem. Can you post "fdisk -lu /dev/sda" output so we can see exact > sector layout? I want to make sure the partitions do not overlap. > > According to IBM/Microsoft, partitions start and end on cylinder > boundaries. If you ever use any OS or software which assumes > IBM/Microsoft semantics, that may cause data loss, since as far as > such software sees things, your partitions overlap. And IBM/Microsoft > did define the pee sea partition table format... > > The cylinder boundary issue isn't supposed to matter to Linux (as > long as sectors don't overlap), but partitioning in the pea sea is > such a crock that it still has me worried. > FWIW, BSD (& Solaris) also uses cylinder boundries. 8 slices per disk (0-7). Slice 2 is the full disk cylinders 0-N and shouldn't be used for anything. Overlapping cylinders will lead to data loss eventually and newer versions of Solaris prevent format (not fdisk) from doing that. I don't remember about the BSD systems. Older BSD based ones did nothing to prevent self LARTing.
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