Commit 02c33b12 authored Jun 07, 2009 by Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz

partitions: warn about the partition exceeding device capacity

The current warning message says only about the kernel's action taken
without mentioning the underlying reason behind it.

Noticed-by: Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>
Cc: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Cc: "Andries E. Brouwer" <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Emphatically-Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>

parent 669165da

fs/partitions/check.c

+2 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -564,7 +564,8 @@ int rescan_partitions(struct gendisk disk, struct block_device bdev)
		* creating invalid block devices
		*/
		printk(KERN_WARNING
		"%s: p%d size %llu limited to end of disk\n",
		"%s: p%d size %llu exceeds device capacity, "
		"limited to end of disk\n",
		disk->disk_name, p, (unsigned long long) size);
		size = get_capacity(disk) - from;
		}

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