From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263452AbTK3Jjc (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Nov 2003 04:39:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263666AbTK3Jjc (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Nov 2003 04:39:32 -0500 Received: from fep01-0.kolumbus.fi ([193.229.0.41]:48079 "EHLO fep01-app.kolumbus.fi") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263452AbTK3Jjb (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Nov 2003 04:39:31 -0500 Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 09:38:39 +0200 (MET DST) From: Szakacsits Szabolcs X-X-Sender: szaka@ua178d119.elisa.omakaista.fi To: Arjan van de Ven cc: Andrew Clausen , John Bradford , Andries Brouwer , Apurva Mehta , Linux Kernel Mailing List , bug-parted@gnu.org Subject: Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX In-Reply-To: <1070182676.5214.2.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> Message-ID: References: <20031128045854.GA1353@home.woodlands> <20031128142452.GA4737@win.tue.nl> <20031129022221.GA516@gnu.org> <20031129123451.GA5372@win.tue.nl> <200311291350.hATDo0CY001142@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> <20031129223103.GB505@gnu.org> <1070182676.5214.2.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 30 Nov 2003, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > EFI GPT has some severe downsides (like requiring the last sector on > disk, which in linux may not be accessible if the total number of > sectors is not a multiple of 2, and making dd of one disk to another > impossible if the second one is bigger) Isn't this Linux's shortcoming? NT could always access odd last sectors. Actually in the majority of cases it stores the backup of its boot sector in the last sector of the partition for recovery purpose (outside of NTFS). Anton made a fix for this years ago. It's PITA (and wasting time) explaining and working around constantly how Linux can (not) access it. Is it fixed in 2.6? Szaka