Re: Partition check considered as error is breaking mounting in 2.6.27

["Bob Copeland" <me@bobcopeland.com>]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
<herton@mandriva.com.br> wrote:
> diff --git a/fs/partitions/check.c b/fs/partitions/check.c
> index 7d6b34e..15c70df 100644
> --- a/fs/partitions/check.c
> +++ b/fs/partitions/check.c
> @@ -499,9 +499,9 @@ int rescan_partitions(struct gendisk *disk, struct block_device *bdev)
>                if (!size)
>                        continue;
>                if (from + size > get_capacity(disk)) {
> -                       printk(KERN_ERR " %s: p%d exceeds device capacity\n",
> +                       printk(KERN_WARNING
> +                               " %s: p%d exceeds device capacity\n",
>                                disk->disk_name, p);
> -                       continue;

It might make sense to comment here that we intentionally want to add the
partition anyway.  That might keep someone from re-adding the continue (same
patch has already come up at least 3 times).

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