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Re: Overlapping (msdos) partitions - No read?
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Andrew Clausen |
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Re: Overlapping (msdos) partitions - No read? |
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Sat, 4 Dec 2004 10:37:29 +1100 |
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On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 04:25:15PM +0000, Andy McLaughlin wrote:
> I can understand if parted refuses to create them (though, I argue,
> there should be some kind of 'force' flag -- and I'd probably be
> willing to do that work if everyone agrees). However, it seems like a
> bug that (lib)parted refuses to read them.
Well, if you can come up with a design/patch that looks very nice,
maybe...
I think it's too complicated. You need to keep in mind the installers
that use parted for autopartitioning.
Cheers,
Andrew