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| author | Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com> | 2012-01-12 14:53:56 -0500 |
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| committer | Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com> | 2013-11-23 16:43:43 -0500 |
| commit | f503870153eda7659b09e52e4adeda3bebf06471 (patch) | |
| tree | 5308ba834e07bba684b27f78acff99d9e7c97f59 /NEWS | |
| parent | 62a27ccbdaa29a825a593c9562a5cf55ff9e8db4 (diff) | |
| download | parted-f503870153eda7659b09e52e4adeda3bebf06471.tar.gz | |
libparted: handle logical partitions starting immediately after the EBR
_blkpg_add_partition() set the length of the extended partition
to 2 sectors to allow LILO to be installed there, beacuse the
linux kernel does this. If a logical partition used that second
sector, adding it would fail beacuse of the overlap. Now
_blkpg_add_partition() will limit the length to only the first
sector if the second is used by a logical partition.
Previously parted did create the partition table, and after a
reboot, the kernel would recognize the table, and happily create
the extended partition as 2 sectors long, thus overlapping the
logical partition, but when parted tried to recreate the same
table with BLKPG, the kernel rightly rejected it.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -4,6 +4,14 @@ GNU parted NEWS -*- outline -*- ** Bug Fixes + libparted: handle logical partitions starting immediately after + the EBR. Creating a logical partition one sector after the EBR + used to cause parted to complain that it could not inform the + kernel of the changes, but after a reboot, everything was fine. + Parted will now correctly inform the kernel of the changes, but + only set the length of the extended partition to 1 sector instead + of two, which would cause it to overlap the logical partition. + parted: fix EOF and ctrl-c handling. parted used to refuse to exit in response to ctrl-c and would get stuck in an infinite loop prompting for more input when it reached EOF on stdin. |