setup-storage and preserving partitions

[Toomas Tamm]

Hello!

Now it passes the overlapping partitions check but has other things to
complain about :-)

"More than 1 extended partition" while there isn't (even according to
the data structure it outputs just before). None of the input was
changed from last week. Output attached.

Toomas

PS Do we need to carry on this conversation on the list? Is anyone else
interested or can we switch to private e-mail?


On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 16:34 +0200, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
> 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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