On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 02:53:39PM -0600, Harley D. Eades III wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > > >On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 04:37:10PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > > > > >>Philip Armstrong wrote: > >> > >> > >>>If there was a way to get partman to not use parted to detect the > >>>partitions, but to just use the existing kernel detected ones in > >>>/proc/partitions (which of course would not be editable) then that > >>>would at least allow pre-existing partitions to be used by the > >>>installer. Perhaps partman is too closely intertwined with parted for > >>>this to be possible -- I haven't looked. > >>> > >>> > >>partman uses parted to create and format partitions. This really needs > >>to be fixed in parted I suppose. > >> > >> > > > >See my proposal about this, we really need a fallback on the > >/proc/partitions > >to provide read-only partitions in case where parted/libparted is not > >working, > >instead of just proposing to over-write the partition table like it is done > >now. > > > > > Is'nt this a GNU/Linux only kinda thing? GNU/Hurd doesn't have a /proc nor > does say the BSD's. I think this could be used only if the OS is infact > running > Linux (the kernel).
Well, /proc/partitions on linux, and whatever replaces it on hurd or *bsd, obviously, the idea is to not 100% rely on libparted to do the right thing, but have a fallback, before proposing to the user to kill all his data by writing a brand new partition table on his disk. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
