Any more word on this patch? It's purely a UI issue; you can't automatically fix the problem in all cases, so we need to check with the user before potentially doing damage. I know you're bothered that a user in this situation may have to tell Parted to ignore the problem, but certainly that's better than blindly overwriting the user's disk even when the user presses ctrl-c.
If you don't want to take the change, I won't press any more. Obviously the situation doesn't happen often in real life or you would have heard from more people by now. I just don't want this fix to fall through the cracks if it can save someone else from what I went through. Matthew On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 09:32, Matthew S. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 02:47, Joel Granados <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> You have a point here. What still bothers me is that the user will >> constantly have to tell parted. "yes, I know that the gpt table is not >> where its suppose to be, ignore please" > > I don't have a problem with that at all. Most users will never see > the message. I was in an apparently unusual situation (since nobody > else has reported this problem in the past 18 months), and any user > would be much happier saying "ignore, please" than digging into the > internals of GPT and editing their copy of Parted. > >> I confess that I could not think of a good solution for this issue of the >> top of my head. The only thing I could think of is to "fix" the position of >> the table without erasing the previous one. But then you would have >> problems with the synchronization of the three. You may also have an issue >> of overlapping lists. > > Yeah, there's no transparent fix you can apply here; if the other OS > really sees the partition differently, any writing you do at the end > of it could corrupt its data. We just need to fix the UI so that the > user doesn't get into the situation I was in: Parted says, "the > primary GPT table is corrupt," I think "no, it's not, it's a bug in > Parted, let me ctrl-c so Parted doesn't try to fix it" ... and then > Parted does anyway. > > The situation is unfortunate, but I think this UI change really > doesn't have a downside. > > > Matthew > _______________________________________________ parted-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/parted-devel
