Re: Issues with disk block devices

2001-03-13 Thread Guest section DW
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 02:36:09AM -0600, Doug Siebert wrote: > This note is sort of a half question half bug report. [devices are accessed in blocksize-size units, and this unit is changed upon a mount, and is 1024 to start with; this gives problems if one wants to access the last few sectors o

Issues with disk block devices

2001-03-13 Thread Doug Siebert
This note is sort of a half question half bug report. I ran into a problem with VMware, though it isn't really an issue with VMware -- I was creating what it terms a "plain disk", and part of that process has it trying to seek to the end of a disk partition and verifying it is really the size it