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| author | Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> | 2009-06-07 13:52:51 +0200 |
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| committer | Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> | 2009-06-07 13:52:51 +0200 |
| commit | 02c33b123e59cab5771e52a012aeb810500260a2 (patch) | |
| tree | e9920f58c500a88820d2e1df29d464df21e650a1 /fs/partitions | |
| parent | 669165daad2ec839df85b8c5f7bc155e76a2f404 (diff) | |
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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>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/partitions')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/partitions/check.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/partitions/check.c b/fs/partitions/check.c index 99e33ef40be4..137a708bb215 100644 --- a/fs/partitions/check.c +++ b/fs/partitions/check.c @@ -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; } |