[Parted-maintainers] Bug#294520: Patch for this bug

[Bas Wijnen]

Hi,

Great to see some work being done on this!

On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 03:20:03PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> This is really a bug in libparted. The difference between parted and
> qtparted is that qtparted uses ped_disk_duplicate() for getting a fresh
> copy of the partition table. And it happends that ped_disk_duplicate()
> calls ped_disk_add_partition(), which makes a lot of "bureaucracy",
> including _renumbering_ through _partition_enumerate()... (and
> alignment, etc...)
> 
> Here is patch for making ped_disk_duplicate() add the partition itself
> in a much direct way, so as to make sure the duplicated partition is
> really exactly the same as the original.
> 
> Bas Wijnen, le Wed 22 Feb 2006 11:57:08 +0100, a ?crit :
> > On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 10:21:42PM -0600, Adam Porter wrote:
> > > On Friday 10 February 2006 06:46, Bas Wijnen wrote:
> > > > Could you please test if the problem is solved with this patch?
> 
> The patch doesn't solve the real issue explained above.

Can you explain?  Given your description I would expect the patch to fix
both the problem and the symptom (of wrongly-numbered partitions).

Thanks,
Bas

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