On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 01:38:22PM +0100, Kris Buytaert wrote:
> I do this only for the extended and the last partitions of my disks.
> So far I did not run in to problems.  Maybe this is something that could
> be  included in the default scripts.

we'd discussed something like this before - however, leaving it as is
means we have 1 type of error when the disk is too small - the error
at partition time.

if we try to make it smarter, there are additional problems we would see.
 - the partition isn't large enough to hold all the data from the golden
   client, which will manifistate itself as an rsync error.
 - the last-nth partition also goes beyond the end of the disk - its
   difficult to adjust for that.

detecting this state beforehand is a good idea though - i'd think a
patch that checked to make sure it had enough space before starting to
partition would be a good thing, that way we could tell the user exactly
what is wrong, and how to fix it before sfdisk/parted throws up all over
them.  if you're interested in doing this, see:
  http://www.systemimager.org/doc/html/develop.html


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