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In message: <20090616100938.R25672@delplex.bde.org>
            Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au> writes:
: > Aha, so I should fix fdisk too then. Thanks.
: 
: Please don't break fdisk too.  There must be a way to set valid but
: dangerous values, or theoretically invalid but practically working
: values, if they are representable and are needed for compatibility.

Yes.  There's many versions of Linux that are difficult to co-exist
with because the sanity checks choke on the values that Linux used...

Warner