On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 05:57:04PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 05:20:02PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > > > I just wonder what constraints the end sector should have in that case, > > looking at the bug report, the end cylinder also seem to be a multiple > > of 2048 - 1, so it seem to me that Microsoft is using 2048 sectors/track > > instead of 63. Vista might not like it that we let the partition stop > > on a sector that's a multiple of 63 - 1, and might be unable to use the > > last "track". > > Is there some kind of version or something for those NTFS partitions, which > will enable us to detect them ?
Afaik, the version is still 3.1, same as for XP. I think they have something in d-i now that detects vista based on some files in the fs or something. Frans probably knows more about this. > If i remember the code well, it would be trivial enough to modify the > sectors-per-cylinder value if we detect a NTFS partition table which needs it, > i think this was already done for the legacy systems, and i know that the > amiga filesystems (ffs, sfs, etc), also have some such constraints, and the > individual cylinder size of them is hold in the main partition table, so i > think i already did something similar. That would be one of the resize_contraints (and copy) in libparted/fs/ntfs/ I guess, not sure yet how those work. But that would still leave the question on how to not change the start sector without breaking something else. Kurt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
