setup-storage and preserving partitions

[Michael Tautschnig]

Hi Toomas and all,

> Hello again!
> 
> I think I already solved the previous one. I was trying to preserve
> partition 3, which is the extended partition. Still, setup-storage
> should not crash on this, but handle such situation gracefully.
> 
> After removing "3" from the "preserve_always" list, I am now seeing what
> I think is another bug.
> 
> In my disk layout, partition 4 is the primary partition physically at
> the end of the disk (a Windows recovery partition from the laptop
> manufacturer). The logical partitions are situated between the primary
> parititions 2 and 4 and are numbered 5, 6, etc.
> 
> Is seems that setup-storage cannot handle the situation where partition
> 5 starts before partition 4 ends, even though they do not overlap
> (partition 5 ends before 4 starts). The check is in Sizes.pm line 319 in
> my version.
> 
> A full debug output is attached. 
> 

I have added a patch to the experimental series that is supposed to fix this.
However, I did not have a chance to test this. Could I count on you to try it
out? It's in version 3.4~beta1+experimental30.

Best regards,
Michael

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