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Date:      Thu, 28 Nov 2013 11:00:03 +0400
From:      Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r258686 - head/sbin/fdisk
Message-ID:  <20131128070003.GY90895@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <201311271759.rARHxEPE069195@svn.freebsd.org>
References:  <201311271759.rARHxEPE069195@svn.freebsd.org>

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  Juli,

On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 05:59:14PM +0000, Juli Mallett wrote:
J> Author: jmallett
J> Date: Wed Nov 27 17:59:13 2013
J> New Revision: 258686
J> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/258686
J> 
J> Log:
J>   Fix fdisk(8) to create 2TB partitions on disks larger than 2TB, rather than
J>   only being able to create 1TB partitions:
J>   o) Use an unsigned 32-bit quantity to store the number of disk sectors.
J>   o) Detect overflow of said 32-bit quantity and clamp to 2^32.
J>   o) Rather than returning the disk sector count from get_params, return 0 on
J>      success, since its return value is only ever compared to -1 to detect
J>      failure.  This would cause returning 2^32 sectors to be interpreted as an
J>      error.
J>   
J>   Reviewed by:	bde ("good for a quick fix")

What is the reason to use fdisk today, instead of gpart?


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Totus tuus, Glebius.



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