On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 08:19:17AM +0200, Karsten Merker wrote: > Hello, > > the following is a discussion from the Debian bugtracking system regarding > Debian Bug#751704 (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=751704). > It needs involvement from parted upstream, therefore I am forwarding it to > bug-par...@gnu.org.
Thanks for forwarding this. parted should only be clobbering these extra sectors when a new disklabel is applied (eg. mklabel in the ui) which, I think, is the appropriate thing to do. If you are operating on an existing disklabel and want to preserver a boot loader in the space before the 1st partition you shouldn't be calling ped_disk_new_fresh(). If you are creating a new disklabel then any boot loader code should be installed after partitioning. I don't think parted needs any changes. -- Brian C. Lane | Anaconda Team | IRC: bcl #anaconda | Port Orchard, WA (PST8PDT) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
