How about just adding PED_EXCEPTION_IGNORE so you can choose to ignore the problem and proceed with removing the bad partition?On 9/14/2010
10:33 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > If you take a virtual disk and truncate it, then likely some > partitions in the partition table will be off the end of the disk. > > However parted refuses to start up in this case. It says: > > Error: Can't have a partition outside the disk! > > even if you are trying to do something sensible such as deleting a > partition which is outside the disk. > > I can't really see a "good" way to solve this, since it happens in the > depths of the constraints/geometry code. The attached patch just > deletes the error check, on the basis that parted should confine > itself to partition tables and not worry about the size of the disk. > Discuss ... _______________________________________________ parted-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/parted-devel
