access beyond end of device?

Bill McGonigle bill at bfccomputing.com
Sat Jul 9 19:17:00 EDT 2005


On Jul 9, 2005, at 08:27, Frank DiPrete wrote:

> On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 15:59 -0400, Brian Chabot wrote:
>> I just noticed a somewhat disturbing entry in my logs....
>>
>> Jul  8 15:35:23 hostname kernel: attempt to access beyond end of 
>> device
>
> perhaps the partition and file system are different sizes.

There were some early 2.6 kernels with broken partition code, weren't 
there?  Or at least something that fdisk didn't understand properly?

-Bill
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