> The problem seems to be in the part of the code when you sorry, not me. FDISK, and the original author may be blamed, but definitively not me.
this is most likely the most horrid code I ever saw in wide distribution, and I am only fixing the worst, most consequential bugs. > create logical > drives within the extended partition. It always seems to infer that > there is 8MB left over and when you confirm that you want to create a > drive in that (alleged?) space, that's when things go south. If you > don't do that, and just leave that little piece of slack alone, shit > happens... > And btw, this happened both with FDISK 1.2.1 and FDISK 1.3.3, so it is > likely in a different part of code than the one you looked at recently > for the update. Also, the error message that prints just before exit > complains about some cylinder values not being as expected... feel free to contribute. it's not in any way 'my' code. actually I would actively fire people who produce such code because 'no clue'. and I have no intention what so ever to reengineer this mess of code. it may be the worst code that I have ever seen *in public distribution*. still surprised that these bugs survived 15+ years of public scrunity. Tom _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
