Package: partman Severity: normal In a dual-boot lab I work for, the Windows administrator recently screwd up all our GNU/Linux installations.
In many of the machines, he screwd up the partition table using Partition Magic, or some other proprietary crap. The thing is that the disc was left with partitions that were inside other partitions, or that overlapped with other partitions, depending on the case. In many of this machines, I had to reinstall the whole system, so I went for a Sarge Installer test. The problem I encountered is that even if fdisk -l /dev/hda shows the partitions, partman does not. It allows only to erase the whole disk. I know it's not partman's fault that the partition table is broken, but since it can be fixed using fdisk, there should be a way of fixing it through partman... Or at least a big warning stating that the partition table is broken and that data will be lost. I hope you can have a look at this. Love, Marga -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
