On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 02:28:45PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Would it not make more sense to just sanity-check the size itself, and > throw it out if the partition size (plus start) is bigger than the disk > size?
I don't mind. > There might well be people use use partition type 0, just because they > just never _set_ the partition type.. I don't think Linux has ever cared > about any type except for the "extended partition" type, so checking for > zero doesn't seem very safe.. The default fdisk will assign type 83 to a newly created partition. One has to change it by hand to 0. So, I do not think testing against 0 is so bad. A heuristic, You give another heuristic. Probably there will be a point in time where we need both. (About type 0: DOS has used type 0 as definition of unused. It is not bad if Linux uses DOS-conventions for a DOS-type partition table.) Andries - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
