On Wen, 16 Nov 2005, Andres Salomon wrote:
> I ran into a problem when running parted on Ubuntu Breezy with an sx8
> device; it would SIGFPE upon startup. The culprit, it turns out, is the
> HDIO_GETGEO ioctl;
This is very interesting. HDIO_GETGEO is completely useless for
partitioning and it was supposed to be removed over a year ago.
If for some reason its wrong values end up to be used then that could
explain why people are still corrupting their partition tables.
Szaka
> when asking for geometry information about a partition (the name-based
> probing wasn't working well for devices like /dev/sx8/0p1, etc),
> sectors and/or heads was 0. This patch makes parted to not only check
> if the ioctl didn't fail, but also make sure it returned sane results
> (both are unsigned, so we don't have to worry about <0).
>
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