Still not in master but will include it in my patch set. Thx for the patch.!! ----- "Matthew S. Harris" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
