setup-storage and preserving partitions

Michael Tautschnig mt at debian.org
Thu Sep 30 13:01:48 CEST 2010


> On Sat, 2010-09-25 at 13:45 +0200, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
> 
> > 
> > - The problem of completely corrupting the table should be fixed for all
> >   versions >= 4.0~beta2+experimental14
> > - The preserve_always:all interpretation as *really don't touch this disk* is
> >   finally there in 4.0~beta2+experimental16.
> > 
> > Further testing would be much appreciated :-)
> 
> I tested 4.0~beta2+experimental19 . An old bug seems to have
> re-surfaced, and not much useful work gets done.
> 
> The job ends with 
> Preserving extended partitions is not supported; mark all logical partitions instead
> 
> The "all" obviously includes the extended partition, thus this check
> makes the "preserve_always:all" unusable on disks which contain extended
> parititions.
> 

[...]

Well well ... as I read your email it was immediately clear to me where I made
this mistake. I just hope it was the only one concering this issue.

Would you mind giving 4.0~beta2+experimental20 another try?

Thanks a lot,
Michael

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