Bug#586104: fails to map extended partitions

2010-06-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Guido Günther [2010.06.16.1708 +0200]: > Could you check Squeeze's 2.6.32? Exactly the same problem with 2.6.32-5-amd64. -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/

Bug#586104: fails to map extended partitions

2010-06-16 Thread Guido Günther
Hi Martin, On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 05:44:16PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: [..snip..] > piper:~|master|.tmp/cdt.YeESOF% sudo kpartx -av /dev/loop0 > add map loop0p1 (253:16): 0 192717 linear /dev/loop0 63 > add map loop0p2 (253:17): 0 192780 linear /dev/loop0 192780 > add map loop0p3 (253:18): 0

Bug#586104: fails to map extended partitions

2010-06-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft [2010.06.16.1744 +0200]: > piper:~|master|.tmp/cdt.YeESOF% dd if=/dev/zero of=disk.img bs=1M count=1 > seek=511 > 1+0 records in > 1+0 records out > 1048576 bytes (1.0 MB) copied, 0.0110016 s, 95.3 MB/s I just retried with a non-sparse image: same result. -- .''`.

Bug#586104: fails to map extended partitions

2010-06-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Guido Günther [2010.06.16.1708 +0200]: > kpartx handles extended partitions nicely, we're using this on literally > dozenzs of servers here - although not on loop but SAN devices. > > Is there anything in dmseg? See below: yes. (dm-18 too small for target) > > The ioctl fails

Bug#586104: fails to map extended partitions

2010-06-16 Thread Guido Günther
Hi Martin, On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 03:24:36PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > Package: kpartx > Version: 0.4.8+git0.761c66f-8 > Severity: normal > > I have three extended partitions on /dev/loop0: > > % sudo sfdisk -d /dev/loop0 > Warning: extended partition does not start at a cylinder bound

Bug#586104: fails to map extended partitions

2010-06-16 Thread martin f krafft
Package: kpartx Version: 0.4.8+git0.761c66f-8 Severity: normal I have three extended partitions on /dev/loop0: % sudo sfdisk -d /dev/loop0 Warning: extended partition does not start at a cylinder boundary. DOS and Linux will interpret the contents differently. # partition table of /dev/lo