On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 04:20:17PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 11:40:37PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > BTW, i also believe that this is a problem on pegasos. Doing a > > ped_partition_set_system each time we put a filesystem on a partition may be > > the thing to do, do you do this ? > > Yes. > > > Example, on pegasos, i was going to install an ext3 filesystem in the old > > swap > > partition. The old partition was marked as type swap, and this was not > > changed, and thus the ext3 filesystem was not readable from the firmware, > > which thought it contained swap, and since there are no driver for this, it > > failed. > > The following happens: > > 1. The partition type is swap, but it contains ext3 > 2. parted reports the partition as ext3 partition > 3. you tell partman to use this partition as ext3 partition > 4. partman does ped_partition_set_system(ext3) for it > 5. however partman sees that the partition was ext3 previously and > concludes that the partition table is unchanged. Thats why partman > doesn't write it to the disk
Ah, no, it was a swap paritition previously, not an ext3. > The API of parted doesn't provide functions to access the partition type > and thats why partman has no way to find out whether your assignment of > the partition as ext3 requires changes in the partition table or not. Yeah, this may change in the future though, but well. > The solution (not nice) would be to write the partition tables > unconditionaly. Why is it not-nice ? It is a good solution, either that or have some way to set it by hand. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
