#8990: intel partiton addon allows creating partitions > 2TB (easy)
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Reporter: luroh | Owner: bonefish
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: R1
Component: Partitioning Systems/Intel | Version: R1/Development
Resolution: | Keywords:
Blocked By: | Blocking:
Has a Patch: 1 | Platform: All
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Comment (by pulkomandy):
IIRC this was discussed on the mailing list, and the outcome is that there
seems to be some confusion on the use of the block_size field in the
structure, leading to the partition add-ons using the wrong block size
when running them on an already formatted file system.
We should fix the underlying issue and make sure the partitionning system
get the correct info reliably (ie the actual disk sector size, no matter
what filesystem is currently on it).
The patches do not address the issue properly, and as such, they will
break use of MBR on disks with 4K sectors, which is an uncommon but valid
use case.
So, the issue is still there, but the patches should be reworked to fix
the actual issue (that the block_size in the partition info is overwritten
with the block size of the file system inside it), rather than working
around it.
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Ticket URL: <https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/8990#comment:26>
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