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

[Harley D. Eades III]

Sven Luther wrote:

>On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 04:37:10PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
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>>Philip Armstrong wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>partman uses parted to create and format partitions. This really needs
>>to be fixed in parted I suppose.
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>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.
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Is'nt this a GNU/Linux only kinda thing? GNU/Hurd doesn't have a /proc nor
does say the BSD's.  I think this could be used only if the OS is infact 
running
Linux (the kernel).

Cheers
Harley