On 3/19/2010 9:24 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: > Whether extended partitions can exist is partition-table-specific, of course. > I assume you realize this and that any changes will work just as well > with, say, GPT partition tables.
Right.. with msdos partitions we only need to worry about renumbering of extended partitions since the kernel seems fine with an unused partition 2 between partitions 1 and 3, and since the slots are hard coded the numbers don't change. I've not had experience with others yet, but I have been reading up on GPT lately and I guess that the kernel just numbers all partitions it finds starting with 1, so any removal results in renumbering? Or does the kernel only pay attention to partition types it recognizes? How does parted currently handle it when you try to delete the extended partition? It seems it is smart enough to check if all logical partitions are not in use before it allows you to remove the extended partition, thus destroying all logical partitions. Perhaps this logic can be extended to handle this case. _______________________________________________ parted-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/parted-devel
