Re: [PATCH] sun disk label: fix signed int usage for sector count

>
> The current sun disklabel code uses a signed int for the sector count. When
> partitions larger than 1 TB are used, the cast to a sector_t causes the
> partition sizes to be invalid:
>

Is not it that the sun disklabel does not even support 
[ptabs/partitions] more than 1 TB?


Jan Engelhardt
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