Bug#216046: partconf: one digit

[stappers@stappers.nl (Geert Stappers)]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 10:44:54PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
> 
> When I selected partition 10 (or 11) in the table to create a
> filesystem or swap on, after the selection was complete the table
> showed that the selection was made on partition 1 instead.
> 
> On powerpc, if a filesystem were actually created on partition 1,
> which is the partition map, this would render the disk unusable and
> would be a major user catastrophe. I'm not sure if it's just a display
> problem, or if the actual operation would be applied to the wrong
> partition (I didn't try it).
> 

Also on i386.

Seems like something that truncates "1*" into "1"
or some other code that can handle only one digit.


Geert Stappers