Re: [d-i] debconf, partitioning widget?
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 10:36:11AM +0100, Philip Blundell wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 05:49, Timshel Knoll wrote:
> > The bigger issue is that parted is very strict about the partition
> > tables it reads, so parted will not work well with inconsistent / dodgy
> > partition tables which may have been caused by other programs. The
> > ability to resize filesystems in the installer would be _very_ cool,
> > however, but there may need to be a fallback method to normal fdisk ...
>
> That seems rather unfortunate. Is there nothing that can be done to make
> parted more tolerant of "dodgy" partition tables? A fallback to fdisk
> would be possible, but that's something we would want to avoid if it's
> at all feasible to do so, both from a standpoint of reducing the amount
> of code that has to be shipped with the installer, and providing a
> consistent user experience.
>
> p.
Wouldn't it be possible to write an API to fdisk so we could fall back to
it underneath without affecting the presentation?
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