Hi guys! [Cc'ing a lot of people who contributed to the bug report]
Kurt wrote: | libparted/label/dos.c:_primary_start_constraint() has this comment: | /* This constraint is for partitions starting on the first cylinder. They | * must start on the 2nd head of the 1st cylinder. | */ | | So it needs to start at the second track, and would mean in most cases | be on sector 63 (63 sectors/track). | However, vista seems to create the first one at sector 2048, which is in | even in the middle of a track. I can't see a good reason why they did | this, other than trying to break things and waste more space. Well, does it really matter _why_ they did it? The problem here (as I perceive it, at least), is that parted is for some reason "fixing" the starting sector of the partition, while it shouldn't touch the beginning of the partition at all. All it should do is change the _ending_ sector. Maybe indeed starting a partition at a non-cylinder boundary will break Windows (on pre-LBA harddisks, etc). But if that is the case, then the partition table was broken already before parted had anything to do with it. I don't think that in such a situation chaning the ending sector will make things worse. Of course, this is a totally different situation than in the case that parted is creating a new partition from scratch. In such a case, of course, it _does_ make sense to write a sane parition table with partitions starting at cylinder boundaries only. So IMO this should be fixed by somehow restricting the parition aligning to the ending sector only, and not have libparted and _partition_align() touch the begin sector of the partition at all, if the partition is being resized. In the case that a new partition is created, everything should stay as it is, and both beginning and ending sector should be aligned. -- Kind regards, +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Bas Zoetekouw | GPG key: 0644fab7 | |----------------------------| Fingerprint: c1f5 f24c d514 3fec 8bf6 | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | a2b1 2bae e41f 0644 fab7 | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
