svn commit: r258686 - head/sbin/fdisk

[Gleb Smirnoff]

  Juli,

On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 05:59:14PM +0000, Juli Mallett wrote:
J> Author: jmallett
J> Date: Wed Nov 27 17:59:13 2013
J> New Revision: 258686
J> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/258686
J> 
J> Log:
J>   Fix fdisk(8) to create 2TB partitions on disks larger than 2TB, rather than
J>   only being able to create 1TB partitions:
J>   o) Use an unsigned 32-bit quantity to store the number of disk sectors.
J>   o) Detect overflow of said 32-bit quantity and clamp to 2^32.
J>   o) Rather than returning the disk sector count from get_params, return 0 on
J>      success, since its return value is only ever compared to -1 to detect
J>      failure.  This would cause returning 2^32 sectors to be interpreted as an
J>      error.
J>   
J>   Reviewed by:	bde ("good for a quick fix")

What is the reason to use fdisk today, instead of gpart?


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