[parted-devel] [PATCH] fix handling of disks that can't be partitioned

[Otavio Salvador]

Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> writes:

> Don't try to call BLKPG ioctls or tell device-mapper to create
> partitions on disks that can't be partitioned. This fixes the creation
> of bogus "/dev/mapper/vg-lvp1"-type devices for LVM logical volumes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com>

Just as a background this solves an installer bug for Debian and will
be applied in Debian package. I support the inclusion of it in master
and stable branches and if noone objects I'll push it. 

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