From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:10321 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751563Ab3KSMQt (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Nov 2013 07:16:49 -0500 Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 13:16:46 +0100 From: Karel Zak To: Phillip Susi Cc: util-linux@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: cfdisk trips on out of order logical partitions Message-ID: <20131119121646.GF5572@x2.net.home> References: <52851A42.7090401@ubuntu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <52851A42.7090401@ubuntu.com> Sender: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 01:45:22PM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > cfdisk's partition parsing logic is flawed in that it assumes they are > in order, so if you have out of order partitions it complains that > they overlap. I currently don't plan to fix anything in cfdisk and sfdisk. I'd like to rewrite the code to use libfdisk to share code between all the fdisks. Karel -- Karel Zak http://karelzak.blogspot.com