Bug#288420: "Partition disks" fails without error if /target busy

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 06:40:44PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> Package: install
> Severity: normal
> 
> When one selects "Partition disks" while /target is still busy (for
> example, if the shell on tty2 has /target as its cwd, no error message
> is displayed, but one is returned without further notice to the menu,
> with "Partition disks" still selected.

This is indeed a known problem. libparted and thus partman doesn't like to
modify the partition table while a partition is mounted, and thus fails to
reread the partition table after partitioning, or plain refuses to do stuff.

It is probable that a more meaningfull message should be showed here though.

Friendly,

Sven Luther