[Fedora-livecd-list] List of previous issues with livecd-tools which should be addressed
Bruno Wolff III
bruno at wolff.to
Sun Sep 12 02:42:55 UTC 2010
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 13:14:21 -0500,
Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ok, I understand what you're doing now, but I still think I'm right.
> If you use straight integer math, it does not round up for the last
> block. It does not round at all, it just drops the remainder. The
> easiest solution probably is to just add 1 to whatever size /
> BLOCK_SIZE returns.
The normal sematic for this kind of thing with integer division is:
(size + BLOCKSIZE - 1) / BLOCK_SIZE
(Unless integer overflows are possible.)
Otherwise if size is a multiple of BLOCK_SIZE the result would be 1 too large.
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