[PATCH] GPT PMBR disk >2TB fix

[Matt Domsch]

Patch below (applies against 1.6.11 and 1.6.16 at least) sets the
SizeInLBA field in the Protective MBR on GPT disks to be 0xFFFFFFFF if
the disk size is really larger than that.  This is to be consistent
with the EFI Specification.

Necessary to prevent overflowing this field on really large disks.
The 2.6.10 Linux kernel partitioning code will start checking
this value for sanity, and 0xFFFFFFFF is a special value there now.


-- 
Matt Domsch
Sr. Software Engineer, Lead Engineer
Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux
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--- parted-1.6.11/libparted/disk_gpt.c~ Wed Mar 10 16:11:42 2004
+++ parted-1.6.11/libparted/disk_gpt.c  Mon Nov  8 09:37:17 2004
@@ -689,7 +689,10 @@ _write_pmbr(PedDevice * dev)
        pmbr.PartitionRecord[0].EndSector   = 0xFF;
        pmbr.PartitionRecord[0].EndTrack    = 0xFF;
        pmbr.PartitionRecord[0].StartingLBA = PED_CPU_TO_LE32(1);
-       pmbr.PartitionRecord[0].SizeInLBA   = PED_CPU_TO_LE32(dev->length - 1);
+       if ((dev->length - 1ULL) > 0xFFFFFFFFULL) 
+               pmbr.PartitionRecord[0].SizeInLBA = PED_CPU_TO_LE32(0xFFFFFFFF);
+       else
+               pmbr.PartitionRecord[0].SizeInLBA = PED_CPU_TO_LE32(dev->length 
- 1UL);
 
        return ped_device_write(dev, &pmbr, GPT_PMBR_LBA, GPT_PMBR_SECTORS);
 }