on boot, access beyond end of device

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Tue Feb 26 01:19:09 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 15:07 -0700, Phil Meyer wrote:
> compare the numbers between:
> 
> # cat /proc/partitions
> 
> and the first column of:
> 
> # df
> 
> What might have happened long long ago and far far away, is that fdisk
> incorrectly calculated the partition size.  It has been known to do
> that. 

On two of my systems, including a long-running and reliable FC4 system,
those two command outputs disagree with each other.  I haven't checked
the others, but I expect a similar story.

-- 
[tim at bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr
2.6.23.15-80.fc7 i686 i386

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