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

[Harley D. Eades III]

Sven Luther wrote:

>On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 02:53:39PM -0600, Harley D. Eades III wrote:
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>>Sven Luther wrote:
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>>>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 
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>>>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 
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>>Linux (the kernel).
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>Well, /proc/partitions on linux, and whatever replaces it on hurd or *bsd,
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:)

>obviously, the idea is to not 100% rely on libparted to do the right thing,
>but have a fallback, before proposing to the user to kill all his data by
>writing a brand new partition table on his disk.
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Right I agree.

Cheers
Harley