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Date:      Sat, 10 Dec 2011 17:49:42 +0100
From:      Robert Millan <rmh@freebsd.org>
To:        "Andrey V. Elsukov" <ae@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: [PATCH] Wipe other file systems when creating new UFS
Message-ID:  <CAOfDtXPN1jNnZdFzmehhqai2yEZUWN7KA1CYqrv%2B7Key7t_X=Q@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4EE18901.7060800@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20111208134307.GA5266@thorin> <4EE18901.7060800@FreeBSD.org>

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2011/12/9 Andrey V. Elsukov <ae@freebsd.org>:
> i think before erasing 512 kib you should at least check actual available
> mediasize and don't use hardcoded 512 sector size.

2011/12/9 Andrey V. Elsukov <ae@freebsd.org>:
> sorry, now i see that you have used disk.d_bsize, not hardcoded.
> But the check for mediasize is still needed. :)

I think I'm actually checking for physical media size, in:

mediasize = get_block_device_size(disk.d_fd);

which is based on output from ioctl rather than file system data
structures.  Is that what you meant?



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