On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 04:48:32PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 02:25:02PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > Ah, no, it was a swap paritition previously, not an ext3. > > Are you sure that it didn't contain ext3 signatures already? If it > contained swap but partman didn't update the partition type then this > must be some unknown bug. (Well, it must be unknown for the present > version of partman. In the past partman would not update the partition > type in this case.)
Mmm. Need to investigate, but anyway, the below should solve this reasonably. > > > 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. > > Because: > > 1. Partman may not write all partition tables - some of them may be for > example USB disk we are installing from So what ? > 2. Consequently partman may try to write only the partition tables that > contain partitions that will be used somehow by the new Debian > (partitions with some file system, with swap or booting partition) Well, the idea is to write the system type only for the partition we are formating, not ? > 3. But if the user uses LVM or RAID partman has to write the partition > tables before it knows which of them will be used. Latter they are > already in use and the kernel complains about changes in them And ? You simply do the system flag writing at the same time you format the partitions, provided they are not on a LVM or RAID device ? > Yes, these problems probably can be got round but not in a clear way. Is the above not a clear way ? What would you find cleaner ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
