Ar Gwe, 2006-10-13 am 09:50 +1000, ysgrifennodd Neil Brown:
> So: Is there any good reason to not clip the partitions to fit
> within the device - and discard those that are completely beyond
> the end of the device??
Its close but not quite the right approach
> The patch at the end of the mail does that. Is it OK to submit this
> to mainline?
No I think not. Any partition which is partly outside the disk should be
ignored entirely, that ensures it doesn't accidentally get mounted and
trashed by an HPA or similar mixup.
I agree it should be fixed, I just don't think your fix is actually a
real fix in this case.
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