[parted-devel] "Error: Can't have a partition outside the disk!"

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 06:28:33PM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote:
> Automatic removal of partitions is absolutely not something that
> should be done.  Not allowing you to create a broken partition is
> good, but when one already is, tools should just notify of the
> problem and leave fixing it up to the user.  That is why I suggested
> simply changing the error flags to allow ignoring it.

Works for me ...  Or having an '--ignore-errors' flag for parted.

Rich.

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