Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 03:43:20 +0100
From: Sverker Wiberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
MOLNAR Ingo wrote:
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> - James W. Laferriere's <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> BSD disklabels compilation fix
Is this to avoid nuking BSD disklabels on raided disks?. If so, is
anyone working on Sun disklabels? I'm a bit tired of being told by
fdisk -l that "Disk doesn't contain any valid partition table" for
each disk in my raid set (except the first one).
Keep up the good work!
You need to start using data at cylinder 1 on all disks or it will get
nuked. It doesn't happen on the first disk because ext2 skips some
space at the beginning of the volume.
Swap space has the same problem, you cannot start it at cyliner 0.
So if RAID adds a workaround for it, the problem is still there just
in another case. The solution is to educate people that they need to
be careful when they partition their disks.
Later,
David S. Miller
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