Severe gbde problem

[Suleiman Souhlal]

Hello,

On Nov 17, 2004, at 1:31 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> Do not put your swap partition over the first 16 sectors of the disk,
> those sectors contain bootcode.

Don't you mean "do not put gbde partitions over the first 16 sectors of 
the disk"? I'm pretty sure any gbde partition would eventually 
overwrite the first 16 sectors. If so, shouldn't we mention this in 
gbde(8), as proposed in the following patch?

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