scsi disk partitioning

Thomas Lange lange at informatik.Uni-Koeln.DE
Tue Aug 27 13:53:21 CEST 2002


>>>>> On Mon, 26 Aug 2002 18:37:23 -0500, Matthew Krenzer <krenzer at wayport.net> said:

    > I'm having some problems partitioning a SCSI disk with a config
    > like this:

    > After spending way to much time trying to figure out what was
    > wrong w/ the hard disk I decided to see where this error was
    > actually being generated and here is what I found in
    > setup_harddisks:

    > if ($command eq "primary") {
    >     ($MPPrimary{$extmp} eq "yes") && ($NoMoreLogicals = 1);
    >     $MPPrimary{$mountpoint} = "yes"; $PrimPartNo++;
    >>>>> ($PrimPartNo == 3) && ($disk =~ /^sd/) && ($PrimPartNo++);
    >     ($PrimPartNo >4 ) && die "ERROR: Too much primary partitions

    > What's going on here?  Why is PrimPartNo = 3 special for sd

I don't know it, because I did not write this script. I already received
a patch for it and will apply this patch ASAP.

-- 
Gruss Thomas



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