[parted-devel] [PATCH 0/2] gpt: Preserve relocated primary partition table

Phillip Susi phill at thesusis.net
Fri Oct 9 20:09:28 BST 2026


Pascal Hambourg <pascal at plouf.fr.eu.org> writes:

> As I wrote, however I am uncomfortable with showing the gap as free 
> space because of possible side effects (same with the current behaviour 
> of showing the gap between the primary PEA and the first usable LBA as 
> free space, leading to new partitions being smaller than expected). Any 
> opinion about the proposal to hide this unusable space I posted on 
> 14/12/2025 ?

Wasn't there a system reserved type of partition that isn't shown as
free space that is used to hide the EBR in MBR?  Seems like that would
be good for this.



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