Andries Brouwer wrote:
> On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 04:00:55PM -0500, Mike Miller (OS Dev) wrote:
>
>> Patch 1/1
>> Sometimes partitions claim to be larger than the reported capacity of a
>> disk device. This patch makes the kernel ignore those partitions.
>>
> Or, while doing forensics on a disk one copies the start to some
> other disk, and that other disk may be smaller.
> Etc.
>
> So, it seems that Linux loses a little bit of its power when such things
> are made impossible.
>
I've had similar situations when trying to recover data from failed devices.
Equally - if you don't know what's going on then partition/disk size
mismatch is a bad thing.
A loud warning may be more appropriate (and useful) than an ignore.
David
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