Fun and games with 3TB hard drives.

[Ian Malone]

On 30 September 2011 16:32, Fernando Cassia <fcassia at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 19:33, linux guy <linuxguy123 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> It turns out that the whole process can be done from within gparted, if you
>> know what you are doing.
>
> This exemplifies the problem with FOSS software and the "here's the
> recipe on how to fix it" culture, . Don't get me wrong, I'm not
> throwing blame around, I just want to say that:
>
> 1. Instead of posting "recipes" on how to fix limitations of the
> software, it'd be MUCH MORE helpful to FIX THE UNDERLYING PROBLEMS
> with the software, so that:
>
> a. A BUG REPORT ON FDISK is entered, so that:
>   * It works correctly on drives bigger than 2TB, or
>   * (interim solution) it displays a user-friendly message telling the user
>     that for big drives as (the current drive size) gparted is the right way to
>     partition to avoid limitations in the FDISK software.
>
> b. FILE A BUG on the automount routines, it should automount such
> drive just like those partitioned with FDISK.
>

The two aren't mutually exclusive, fixing the problem and all corner
cases thoroughly may take a while, so being able to rapidly share a
solution which works is helpful. Otherwise we're talking about people
waiting for fdisk to be fixed and a new release rolled out (otherwise
applying a patch and building it yourself is not too much different
from following a recipe for operation).

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imalone