[Parted-maintainers] Bug#354991: installation-report: Partman fails to detect windows LDM partitions

[Sven Luther]

On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 04:37:10PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Philip Armstrong wrote:
> > If there was a way to get partman to not use parted to detect the
> > partitions, but to just use the existing kernel detected ones in
> > /proc/partitions (which of course would not be editable) then that
> > would at least allow pre-existing partitions to be used by the
> > installer. Perhaps partman is too closely intertwined with parted for
> > this to be possible -- I haven't looked.
> 
> partman uses parted to create and format partitions. This really needs
> to be fixed in parted I suppose.

See my proposal about this, we really need a fallback on the /proc/partitions
to provide read-only partitions in case where parted/libparted is not working,
instead of just proposing to over-write the partition table like it is done
now.

Friendly,

Sven Luther