[parted-devel] [PATCH 2/6] libparted: handle busy extended partition

[Phillip Susi]

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On 10/16/2012 8:38 AM, Petr Uzel wrote:
>> What happens if the old partition was NOT an extended partition, 
>> but the new one is?  In other words, we are removing a primary 
>> partition and replacing it with a primary that starts in the
>> same place?  Then wouldn't this change prevent parted from
>> complaining that it couldn't make the change if the partition is
>> in use?
> 
> Isn't this a bit of a contrived case? :) No, really, good point - 
> I'll try to reproduce this scenario and check what can be done 
> about it.
> 
> Thanks for the review,
> 
> Petr

Maybe you could add a check that the existing kernel partition table
has a length <= 2 sectors, then it should be safe to assume that the
partition is already an extended, so if the new partition is also
extended, then we don't care if removing it fails.

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