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partman-base package

  1. Bug #366282
  2. Comment #11

Comment 11 for bug 366282

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote : Re: Install partitioner does not detect existing partition table

This is because partition 8 on this disk overflows the disk slightly (by about 10KB, if I'm doing my arithmetic correctly), and libparted rejects such things.

I note that the Linux kernel simply truncates partitions like this now:

  http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/9/219

Perhaps libparted should be able to do the same? I'll contact upstream and ask.