Re: partman-auto limitations on sparc

2004-11-12 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 11:05:31AM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 01:16:29AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > On sparc, partman-auto can only partition existing free space, it's not > > capable of repartitioning a whole disk. > > > > So, what's the story behind this, and can it

Re: partman-auto limitations on sparc

2004-11-12 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 01:16:29AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > On sparc, partman-auto can only partition existing free space, it's not > capable of repartitioning a whole disk. > > So, what's the story behind this, and can it be fixed? I reported this as #237410. It seams like libparted does not r

Re: partman-auto limitations on sparc

2004-11-11 Thread Joey Hess
Sven Luther wrote: > As said on irc, i believe that the problem is twofold here, that is there are > two parted bugs/features that influence this : > > o parted has a bug showing large partitions, du to it using an int and not a > larger kind of value. I have a patch for this, and it will go

Re: partman-auto limitations on sparc

2004-11-11 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 01:16:29AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > On sparc, partman-auto can only partition existing free space, it's not > capable of repartitioning a whole disk. Indeed, it does not even present > that as an option, and if it's preseeded to partition a whole disk > anyway, we see why:

partman-auto limitations on sparc

2004-11-10 Thread Joey Hess
On sparc, partman-auto can only partition existing free space, it's not capable of repartitioning a whole disk. Indeed, it does not even present that as an option, and if it's preseeded to partition a whole disk anyway, we see why: /bin/perform_recipe: IN: NEW_PARTITION =dev=ide=host0=bus0=target1