bin/83619: 'diskinfo -t' fails with disks smaller than about 6.3GB.

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at haven.freebsd.dk
Sun Jul 17 16:10:25 GMT 2005


The following reply was made to PR bin/83619; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk at phk.freebsd.dk>
To: trasz <trasz at buziaczek.pl>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/83619: 'diskinfo -t' fails with disks smaller than about 6.3GB. 
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 18:04:09 +0200

 In message <200507171557.j6HFv6jf005130 at www.freebsd.org>, trasz writes:
 
 >>Description:
 >      apparently 'diskinfo -t' does not work with disks smaller than about 6.3GB.  however, instead of falling gracefully, it does it like this:
 >
 
 A patch is most welcome to make it fail more gracefully.
 
 Please do not change the logic of the test however, the idea is to
 have a constant test-definition.
 
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