I always forget to attach things :)
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 21:07:07 +0200 "K.G." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi list, > > I've commited the attached patch, which (should) get ride of the infamous > " Assertion (metadata_length > 0) at disk_dos.c in function > add_logical_part_metadata() failed " bug (at least for partitions schemes > generated by Parted...). > > While I was writing it I discovered that the previous code was really > unsafe and could produce logical partitions overlapping their partition > table, which can lead to data corruption. This wasn't happening often > before 1.6.23 (but this could definitly happen) because the partitions > were aligned most of the time, in which case the bug doesn't occur. > But now, when using MB units to write the start / end of a partition on > a modern HD with cylinder size == 16065 sectors, partitions are very > often unaligned. > > Cheers, > Guillaume Knispel
infamous.metadata_length.patch
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