Re: Critical Parted Question

[Patrick Leslie Polzer]

Hello Jeremy,

On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 15:24:29 -0500
Jeremy Moles <Jeremy Moles <address@hidden>> wrote:

 | My question is: why is parted modifying these values? Is there an
 | invocation that says: "don't touch the number of heads, etc." As it
 | stands, parted seems to do what it wants to the geometry parameters
 | (though, I'm sure smarter people than me wrote parted and have a good
 | reason WHY they're doing it :) ), but it's seriously breaking the
 | recovery partition.
The problem might lie within the obsolete HDIOGETGEO ioctl still in use
by GNU Parted (there's been another thread about this and the fix will
probably be in 1.7rc1) which results in Parted getting the wrong geometry
(which in turn might get written at some place to the partition table).

The question left is: why does changing the geometry to the old values
not help?

Furthermore, is there a specification available for this IBM recovery
partition?

Leslie

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