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Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 15:24:52 +0100
From: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
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Subject: Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX
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On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 10:28:54AM +0530, Apurva Mehta wrote:

> On 2.6.0-testx kernels, I have noticed that there are problems with
> GNU Parted. Parted says that the disk geometries reported by the
> kernel are incorrect.

Yes. Parted should be fixed not to complain.
There is no such thing as a "correct" disk geometry.
Roughly speaking the kernel no longer attempts to report anything,
so calling HDIO_GETGEO is useless (for this purpose).

Andries