[parted-devel] [PATCH] Always allow at least two sectors for extended boot record

[Phillip Susi]

On 4/19/2010 7:30 AM, Petr Uzel wrote:
> I don't think so. If the offset between extended and first logical partition is
> only one sector, BLKPG definitely fails. But BLKRRART seems to handle such
> situation just fine:

The BLKRRPART ioctl fails rather than create overlapping partitions, as
it should.  I believe that even though BLKRRPART succeeds it silently
throws out the logical partition since it overlaps the extended.
Actually, it should complain in dmesg.