current-users: Re: disklabeling a 1.7 TB disk

Subject: Re: disklabeling a 1.7 TB disk
To: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
From: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
List: current-users
Date: 02/29/2004 06:35:18

>On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 05:51:31PM -0500, Jan Schaumann wrote:
>> Ok, I'm going completely insane here.  I have a 1.7 TB disk, that I'm
>> desparately trying to disklabel.  So:
>
>> cylinders: -869262
>> total sectors: -876216576
>
>printfs now fixed in current.
>
>> Ok, so I think: how about I correct the faulty fields?  I fix 'total
>
>> total sectors: 2147483647
>
>This patch should fix disklabel so that it will accept up to 2^32-1
>for important fields.
>
>Going beyond 2^32 sectors is hard.....

	btw, NXTNUM/NXTXNUM has problem with _CHECKLINE (_CHECKLINE tries to
	"break" out of the loop, but NXTNUM/NXTXNUM is wrapped by do-while
	so _CHECKLINE does not function correctly.

itojun