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From: Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com>
To: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: cfdisk can't handle out of order partitions
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 20:38:12 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50CBD484.5080102@ubuntu.com> (raw)

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I came across a very old bug report in deiban and ubuntu ( LP:
#107023, debian bug #464377 ) where cfdisk errors out with partitions
that are out of order. In fact, it seems it can't even correctly
complain that they are out of order, but rather says:

FATAL ERROR: Bad logical partition 6: enlarged logical partitions

I took a look at the code, but it seems it makes quite liberal
assumptions about them being in order, and needs a significant rework
to handle out of order partitions.


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