Re: [PATCH] partitions/efi: treat size mismatch as a warning, not anerror

[Karel Zak]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 04:28:22PM -0700, Doug Anderson wrote:
> +	 *
> +	 * Consider a bad value here to be a warning to support dd-ing
> +	 * an image from a smaller disk to a bigger disk.
>  	 */
>  	if (ret == GPT_MBR_PROTECTIVE) {
>  		sz = le32_to_cpu(mbr->partition_record[part].size_in_lba);
>  		if (sz != (uint32_t) total_sectors - 1 && sz != 0xFFFFFFFF)
> -			ret = 0;
> +			pr_warn("%s: mbr size mismatch (%u != %u)\n", __func__,
> +				sz, (uint32_t)((uint32_t) total_sectors - 1));
>  	}

 I did the same change to util-linux v2.24 fdisk, so you can use the fdisk
 to update your protective MBR and boot without warnings.

    Karel

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