Friday, February 03, 2023

Re: Probable bug in disklabel(8) -R

Namaste Crystal,

Koti Koti Dhanyavaad for your reply.

> Sent: Friday, February 03, 2023 at 3:21 PM
> From: "Crystal Kolipe" <kolipe.c@exoticsilicon.com>
> To: "Puru Shartha" <purushartha@gmx.com>
> Cc: "Misc" <misc@openbsd.org>
> Subject: Re: Probable bug in disklabel(8) -R
>
> On Fri, Feb 03, 2023 at 04:02:43PM +0100, Puru Shartha wrote:
> > Problem:
> > The restored disk will have the boundend at 2 TB, instead of the source
> > disk's full disk size boundend.
>
> ...
>
> > The net effect may be that the restored disk has not had its boundary
> > extended beyond the fdisk limit of 2 TB.
>
> This is not a bug.
>
> The current behaviour is intentional, and was added in revision 1.169 of
> disklabel.c.

If this is intentional, would one have to first extend the boundaries
and then restore the disk label?

> But thanks for reporting it anyway.

Please no thanks, I am a nobody.

Dhanyavaad,
Dharma Artha Kama Moksha

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