Re: [Clonezilla-live] Function is_partition in program makeboot.sh

2025-12-15 Thread Steven Shiau via Clonezilla-live
The program "makeboot.sh" is actually a legacy program. For the uEFI system nowadays normally it's no need to use it anymore. Of course we can improve it by check /proc/partitions to see if the partition exists. Normally it's better to run syslinux/extlinux in the partition which is not mounted.

Re: [Clonezilla-live] Function is_partition in program makeboot.sh

2025-12-13 Thread James Epp
Maybe it's bad netiquette to dump the code in an email. I'll put it at the end to reduce the pain. It's not too long. Seems to me it's just a bunch of regex tests but you're correct, it doesn't look to test if the device actually exists, merely that the parameter is valid/as expected. I'm going to

[Clonezilla-live] Function is_partition in program makeboot.sh

2025-12-12 Thread Jean Pierre De Schacht via Clonezilla-live
Hi, Clonezilla version: clonezilla-live-20251203-questing-amd64.zip Script makeboot.sh Function is_partition The function does NOT check for existence of a partition. e.g for a device device sda with partitions sda1 and sda2, is_partition /dev/sda2025 returns true. Is this intended behavi