[Parted-maintainers] Bug#491797: fwd: libparted and hidden FAT partitions

[Thomas Viehmann]

Hi,

as Ben (and also Otavio in private) mentioned, it is not yet clear
whether the (non-)handling implemented by Ben's patch is ideal in all
situations.
I have forwarded the patch to upstream for comment[1].
Thanks for looking into this!

Kind regards

T.

1. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2008-10/msg00005.html
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: libparted and hidden FAT partitions
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:56:50 +0200
To: bug-parted gnu.org

Hi,

a bug has been reported to the Debian BTS[1] about breaking hidden FAT
partitions that seems relate to libparted. Ben Hutchins prepared a patch
to have parted preserve hidden fat partitions[2], but it is unclear
whether that behaviour is ideal in all situations, so we (Otavio asked
me to forward this because he is busy enough with his other Debian work
to delegate forwarding this) would appreciate if you could offer some
comment on the problem and/or the proposed solution.

Kind regards

T.

1. http://bugs.debian.org/491797
2. in the bug log[1], also attached for your convenience
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