[parted-devel] [PATCH] libparted: improve overlapping partition

[Phil Susi]

On 3/31/2017 6:31 AM, Wang Dong wrote:
> parted does not allow real overlapping partition with constraint mechanism.
> Everytime overlapping happens, parted will try to find free space to
> allocate for new partition.If no free space found, it will complain
> with this exception and exit.
> 
> Then for security, when no proper allocation found, it should jump to error.
> And an exception will be presented.

I'm not following this patch.  It looks to me like the else you added
will throw an error whenever there is NOT an overlap.



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