-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/16/2012 8:38 AM, Petr Uzel wrote: >> What happens if the old partition was NOT an extended partition, >> but the new one is? In other words, we are removing a primary >> partition and replacing it with a primary that starts in the >> same place? Then wouldn't this change prevent parted from >> complaining that it couldn't make the change if the partition is >> in use? > > Isn't this a bit of a contrived case? :) No, really, good point - > I'll try to reproduce this scenario and check what can be done > about it. > > Thanks for the review, > > Petr
Maybe you could add a check that the existing kernel partition table has a length <= 2 sectors, then it should be safe to assume that the partition is already an extended, so if the new partition is also extended, then we don't care if removing it fails. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJQfXoFAAoJEJrBOlT6nu75XB8IAMpYDw7dzmqq3doorctFJYYT 1fOuBE01c44NwmYoYDnMZ351XseUPR8oOrD1CaTMo2vz+QDXL49pA9OK6Syde6vW XdXXsThTE0GuJm3Oyv7aLSKW8OKpvYWo1xAcYDBC15cw60wSMa3Z8ugqTbroHlYt f6rw+de4o5J9ulEL7WSXjPGtaN3da0ZJHHZ/bxvzxMdUOvMEI7wyIJli9nBpaQ1v aP8u4FXqYF/QHuk9CDswyPPDpawAj/BUGYheve2xG0OxMiPrytZ7pE0S+Ls7XkZ+ irRNrvv82nSrozBZT3PQ5OgqwDt7WYp4EvR8jYMLYoIf7G7b2rrFYo0WDyP9y8w= =0Sk4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
