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On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:54:51 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> When the |
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> kernel boots, it reads the partition table off disk and knows that the |
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> first partition starts at cylinder 0 and the second partition starts at |
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> say cylinder 2000. The kernel doesn't update this information when you |
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> run fdisk, so if you delete two partitions and create one big one, the |
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> kernel can get confused. It's not hard to fix on the PC, but Linux runs |
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> on 20 architectures that are not all as crazy as Intel PCs, which might |
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> be why this oddity is still there are 15 years. Redhat have a utility |
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> called partprobe that gets everything back in sync after using fdisk, |
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> but I have yet to find it in Portage |
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You can do this with "hdparm -z". If it reports an error, you'll need to |
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reboot to ensure the kernel's partition table is up to date. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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There is absolutely no substitute for a genuine lack of preparation. |
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