Re: NetBSD 8: Install on an LVM partition

[Michael van Elst <mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost>]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 07:59:15AM -0800, John Nemeth wrote:

> } This is also true when using the raw partition. While access to the disk
> } is bounded by the real size, the disklabel can only store a 32bit number
> } (which is nowadays clamped to the maximum, not just the low 32 bits).
> } The dm driver uses getdisksize() to report device information to
> } LVM and getdisksize() uses DIOCGPARTINFO to retrieve the partition data.
> } It doesn't specially treat the raw partition differently, maybe it
> } just should.
> 
>      Modern versions of gpt(8) use:
> 
> ioctl(gpt->fd, DIOCGMEDIASIZE, &gpt->mediasz)


Saying this...

DIOCGPARTINFO returns the full 64bit media size for the raw partition.

So that problem should be gone since netbsd-8.


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