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authorPhillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com>2014-04-27 11:15:47 -0400
committerPhillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com>2014-05-22 19:56:36 -0400
commit7feb3b452c5ae57e75e16f8c00f46c9aa564a4cc (patch)
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parent32d637298717446a4edd3c8fbe637462fab4c000 (diff)
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libparted: don't create partition on loop label
The loop label represents an unpartitioned disk, but creates a dummy partition to represent the whole disk. This dummy partition was actually being loaded into the kernel. Don't do that.
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@@ -29,6 +29,10 @@ GNU parted NEWS -*- outline -*-
** Bug Fixes
+ libparted: The loop label represents an unpartitioned disk, but creates
+ a dummy partition to represent the whole disk. This dummy partition
+ was actually being loaded into the kernel. Don't do that.
+
libparted: fix loop labels to not vanish if you don't create
a filesystem, and to not return an error syncing when you do.