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Re: Bug#181975: di-utils-mkfs: failure with unpartitioned hard drive



* Oskar Liljeblad 

| 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.

IMNSHO, it should say «no partitions available».  If you are doing
this, you are advanced enough to do this in a shell as well.

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Tollef Fog Heen                                                        ,''`.
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