On Mon, 13 Apr 1998, SUNAGAWA Keiki wrote:

> "David A. Gatwood" <marsmail@globegate.utm.edu>  wrote:
> 
> David> After a few hours of hacking, I've managed to get
> David> Apple's (MkLinux's) pdisk to compile and partially
> David> work (haven't tried writing anything yet, only
> David> reading, don't want to hose my drive... need to find
> David> an old drive to hork....)  Getting it to compile was
> David> a bit of a drag, but nothing too complicated.
> 
> Cool!
> 
> I have a question...  In the way of Apple's partition
> scheme, partition map grows as new partition is added.
> (duh!) Pdisk had some problems for handling this "growing
> partition" when I played with pdisk under mono-linux on a
> Power Mac a couple months ago.  So I gave up to port it to
> NetBSD in that time.
> 
> Haven't you been experienced with this problem?

Can't say that I'm familiar with it (or have even heard about it).  What
exactly did it do?  I add and delete partitions w/o any problems, but some
formatters give the partition table size off by one, which could be part
of the problem, not sure.


David

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