Brooks Davis wrote:
> > It would be easiest for you to create a partition table on the
> > disk, and steal a table entry with a "magic" partition type to
> > indicate that either the LBA or CHS data was actually version or
> > type information, etc..
>
> The thing I'm worried about there is that
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 12:11:55AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote:
> Brooks Davis wrote:
> > What I'd been thinking was that I could write a magic string over the
> > beginning of the MBR since I'm never going to try and boot these disks.
> > That would let me detect uninitalized drives as well as out
Brooks Davis wrote:
> What I'd been thinking was that I could write a magic string over the
> beginning of the MBR since I'm never going to try and boot these disks.
> That would let me detect uninitalized drives as well as out of date
> partitioning schemes. Are there any problems to look out fo
I'm building a cluster where the nodes will boot using PXE, but they have
disks on them which will be used for things like scratch space, swap,
crash dumps, etc. Once of the issues I'm facing is that I'd like to be
able to detect if the disks have been partioned to the latest standard
on boot and
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