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

[Petr Uzel]

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 11:15:18AM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 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.

Good idea, thanks. I'll send v2 shortly.

Petr

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Petr Uzel
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