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Re: ldm_validate_partition_table(): Disk read failed

 

On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 21:12:30 +0200 (CEST),
Peter Toft <pto@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote in <Pine.LNX.4.56.0308042024370.4526@brick.hjemmenet>:
> Hvad katten betyder
> "ldm_validate_partition_table(): Disk read failed"
> - det vælter fra tid til anden hen over min skærm
> under boot af Linux.

Der står det her i /usr/src/linux/fs/partitions/ldm.c (før
definitionen af ldm_validate_partition_table()):

/**
 * ldm_validate_partition_table - Determine whether bdev might be a
 dynamic dis\
k
 * @bdev:  Device holding the LDM Database
 *
 * This function provides a weak test to decide whether the device is
 a dynamic
 * disk or not.  It looks for an MS-DOS-style partition table
 containing at
 * least one partition of type 0x42 (formerly SFS, now used by Windows
 for
 * dynamic disks).
 *
 * N.B.  The only possible error can come from the read_dev_sector and
 that is
 *       only likely to happen if the underlying device is strange.
 If that IS
 *       the case we should return zero to let someone else try.
 *
 * Return:  TRUE   @bdev is a dynamic disk
 *          FALSE  @bdev is not a dynamic disk, or an error occurred
 */

Jeg kunne ikke finde noget fornuftigt med Google (hvilket du sikkert
også har forsøgt). Jeg forstår ovenstående således, at du skal tage
fuld backup snarest.

-- 
Med venlig hilsen / Best regards
David List


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