[parted-devel] [PATCH] Add support for RAM drives

[Sebastian Parschauer]

On 19.04.2017 17:56, Phil Susi wrote:
> On 4/19/2017 10:37 AM, Sebastian Parschauer wrote:
>> @Phil and Brian: Can you please have a look? This is really trivial and
>> easy to test. It is mostly about not erasing RAM drives when printing
>> their partitions. Thanks in advance!
> 
> I'm still catching up on mail, but that is on my list of ones I have
> flagged to apply, test, and push very soon.  I must admit though, I
> wonder why anyone would ever want to partition a ram disk ;)

Thanks, kiwi guys do strange things, support building live images based
on RAM drives and QA guys find that these aren't working as parted
erases them at boot. ;-) That is the story behind. I'm not sure if they
will drop that support or if any customer is using that.