Sven Luther wrote:
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.
Right I agree.
Cheers
Harley
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