Bug#230440: FWD: Re: INSTALL REPORT with 2004-01-09 netinst, failed

[Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg>]

On 27.V.2004 at 13:55 (+0200) Yann Dirson wrote:
> 
> Then partition objects in memory should probably be initialized as
> having no fs on them, instead of looking up the disk. 

This is exactly what the newer versions of partman do.

> Or, maybe better, they could be initialized from disk only if the fs
> size matches (or maybe is smaller than) the new partition

This is necessary for partitions that exist on the disk but difficult
to implement because such checks depend on the file system, libparted
doesn't support them and no library packaged as udeb does.

Anton Zinoviev