Bug#181975: di-utils-mkfs: failure with unpartitioned hard drive
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 11:36:03PM +0100, Oskar Liljeblad wrote:
> Running "Create a file system" (di-utils-mkfs) on a drive
> with no partitions causes this error:
>
> di-utils-mkfs's postinst exited with status 5120
See also #180694.
> The fix is either to tell the user that there are no partitions,
> or (IMHO the preferred way for experts) allow the user to create
> a file system on the whole disk. Theoretical (untested) fix
> below.
Why would you prefer not to partition the drive?
Matt
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