Re: [version 1.6.21] Assertion (dis k != NULL) at ../../libparted/disk.c:1037 in function ped_disk_next_partition()

[Sven Luther]

On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 10:16:57AM +0100, eliehd wrote:
> I think that originally, my swap was a logical partition, then I may 
> have accidentally changed it to a primary!
> 
> I used Mandrake (for the original partition table, quite some time ago), 
> then I reconfigured the table (defined the swap) during Debian's 
> installation.

Andrew, what do you think, for future versions of libparted, to modify the
detection behavior.

Instead of running the probes, and stoping once you found, we would run all
probes, put the results in a list, and then if there is a single element in
the list, go for it, if not, we ask the user in an exception about this fact,
with eventually a choice to clobber the badly detected info.

We maybe need to add a clobber-light in this case, since the full clobber may
well break the real file-system or partition table on the disk.

Also, it would be nice to have the same kind of double checking for
filesystems which are one partitions marked as being of some other type.

Friendly,

Sven Luther